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'Cancer doesn't have an age': Genetic testing and cancer risk management in BRCA1/2 mutation-positiv...

'Cancer doesn't have an age': Genetic testing and cancer risk management in BRCA1/2 mutation-positiv...

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'Cancer doesn't have an age': Genetic testing and cancer risk management in BRCA1/2 mutation-positive women aged 18–24

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Full title

'Cancer doesn't have an age': Genetic testing and cancer risk management in BRCA1/2 mutation-positive women aged 18–24

Publisher

London, England: SAGE

Journal title

Health (London, England : 1997), 2012-11, Vol.16 (6), p.636-654

Language

English

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Publisher

London, England: SAGE

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Increasingly, 18–24-year-old women from hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) families are pursuing genetic testing, despite their low absolute risks of breast and ovarian cancer and the fact that evidence-based management options used with older high-risk women are not generally available. Difficult clinical decisions in older carriers take on s...

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'Cancer doesn't have an age': Genetic testing and cancer risk management in BRCA1/2 mutation-positive women aged 18–24

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1494299977

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1494299977

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ISSN

1363-4593

E-ISSN

1461-7196

DOI

10.1177/1363459312442420

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