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Effects of personal cancer history and genomic risk information on mothers' psychological adaptation to inherited breast/ovarian cancer syndrome.
Psychology, health & medicine - 1 Feb 2025
Chaillet Katharine S, Sleiman Marcelo M, Yockel Mary Rose, Peshkin Beth N, Chiang Jessica J, Isaacs Claudine, Tercyak Kenneth P
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This study aimed to understand long-term coping responses of mothers (N = 287) receiving genetic counseling and testing (GCT) for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome. Psychological characteristics, including cancer-specific distress (Impact of Events Scale-Revised, α = .85) and coping (Brief COPE, α = .93) were assessed via structured personal communication, along with epidemiologic items assessing...
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