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Cancer Risk Factors
Notification of genetic test results did not adversely affect psychologic outcomes
January 26th, 2006
Notification of genetic test results did not adversely affect psychologic outcomes in African-American women with a BRCA1 mutation. According to scientists in the United States, "Numerous studies have examined short-term and long-term psychologic responses to genetic testing for breast/ovarian carcinoma susceptibility in clinic samples and among families who participated in genetic linkage studies. However, to the authors' knowledge, the vast majority of studies focused on non-Latino whites and women." A.Y. Kinney and colleagues wrote, "In this prospective study, we investigated the psychologic impact of receiving carrier-specific BRCA1...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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