What Women with Breast Cancer Discuss with Clinicians About Risk for Their Adolescent Daughters
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Recorded conversations between women undergoing BRCA genetic counseling with clinicians (N = 16) and follow-up consultation letters (N = 16) were analyzed to determine how and when communicating genetic risk information to women's adolescent daughters is discussed. Themes from conversations included mothers' worries about their daughters, perceptions of their daughters' coping, educational information, and clinicians' willingness or reluctance to communicate directly with daughters about their genetic risk. Letters referred to daughters when informing mothers about autosomal dominant inheritance patterns, psychosocial considerations, and screening recommendations. Results inform the value of educating mothers about how they might discuss these issues with their adolescent daughters.
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
Authors: Erin Maloney, Shawna Edgerson, Mark Robson, Ken Offit, Richard Brown, Carma Bylund, David W. Kissane
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Cancer Institute
OpenAlex ID: W1968115416