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Men in breast cancer families: a preliminary qualitative study of awareness and experience.

1 Sept 1998

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In inherited forms of breast cancer, attention in clinical genetics services has focused on women because they are most at risk of developing cancer. Men at risk of transmitting a predisposing gene mutation are less likely to have a genetic test than the women in these families. This preliminary study investigates the perspective of the brothers of women with familial breast cancer and is based on qualitative...

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PMID: 9733032
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.35.9.739

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