Psychobehavioral Impact of Genetic Counseling and Breast Cancer Gene Testing in Healthy Women of African Descent

Abstract

To date 145 women have been recruited for Survey 1 but only 80 women signed the consent form. Forty-nine women have undergone genetic counseling (34 high risk women and 15 low risk women) and 30 women have donated blood for BRCA testing. We are behind in subjects recruitment, mainly due to unanticipated problems during the first Year of the study. Although recruitment has improved we do not anticipate that we will be able to recruit 600 women as we had proposed. Our main goal is to recruit the proposed 200 high risk women as these women are most likely to benefit from genetic counseling and testing for breast cancer susceptibility. With the support from this award we have one paper submitted, one paper in press and one published abstract.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA366637

Entities

People

  • Heiddis Valdimarsdottir

Organizations

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • African Americans
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Cancer Screening
  • Counseling
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Gene Therapy
  • Genes
  • Genetic Testing
  • Genetics
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neoplasms
  • Psychology

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  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Women's Health and Cancer Risk Research: African American Women and Pregnancy Outcomes.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology