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Cancer Risk Factors
Women seeking genetic risk assessment need information as well as emotional support
December 8th, 2005
Women seeking genetic cancer risk assessment need accurate information as well as emotional support. According to investigators from the United States, "Genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA) is increasingly being incorporated into clinical care. Planning supportive nursing care for women seeking GCRA requires knowledge of their health beliefs." D.J. MacDonald and colleagues wrote, "We described and compared the cancer risk-related beliefs of 134 women with a personal history of breast cancer (affected group) and 80 women without breast cancer who had a family history of the disease (unaffected group), prior to risk assessment, using a mailed survey....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-08)
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