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Juggling roles and expectations: dilemmas faced by women talking to relatives about cancer and genetic testing

2004-08-01

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Health professionals do not inform their patients’ kin about BRCA1/2 test results or genetic testing without their written consent. Thus, the onus is on women attending genetic counselling to talk to relatives about the family history and their potential increased risk. This communication process within the family is largely unexplored and provides the focus of the present study. Fifteen healthy women attending a...

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Literature Corpus work: 9d30e6ee-cdec-516f-ad97-1284fdf85547
DOI: 10.1080/08870440410001684168

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