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Participation in Breast Cancer Genetic Counseling: The Influence of Educational Level, Ethnic Background, and Risk Perception

2001-06-01

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Abstract Genetic counseling has been suggested as a means of providing information and support to women with a family history of breast cancer. Yet women who undergo cancer genetic counseling in the United States generally consist of only a subset of those at risk, namely well‐educated, upper‐middle class, European American and Jewish women. We report outcomes from a study that provided a unique opportunity to det...

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Literature Corpus work: cde5fb17-ae66-5309-bd9f-86b36676463a
DOI: 10.1023/a:1016662524428

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