How daughters of women with breast cancer cope with the threat of the illness.

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Coping strategies and attitudes toward medical treatment of 45 daughters of women who had had breast cancer were compared with strategies (sense of coherence) and attitudes on a health opinion survey of 51 women with no such family history who were referred to a breast health clinic in northern Israel. The daughters of women with breast cancer ranked lower on sense of coherence than the women with no such...

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