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Background. Lung cancer screening can result in a high rate of indeterminate findings and
has not yet been proven to be efficacious in reducing mortality. To date, the psychological …

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous autosomal dominant cardiac
disorder with a prevalence of 1 in 500. Over 450 different pathogenic mutations in at least 16 …

BACKGROUND: Since 1996, in the Netherlands, cardiac and molecular screening has been
performed in families with the long QT syndrome, a potentially life-threatening but treatable …

Objectives: The emotional effects of genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal
cancer (HNPCC) provided within a counseling program were assessed among 253 …

This study identified levels of distress, and predictors of levels of distress, in women
undergoing assessment for genetic risk of breast/ovarian cancer based on their family …

Aim The aim of this longitudinal study was to explore both levels of and factors predictive of
psychological and cancer-specific distress in women with demonstrated BRCA1 mutations …

Objective: This longitudinal study investigated pre‐screening factors that predicted breast
cancer‐specific distress among 1286 women who were undergoing annual mammography …

For newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, BRCA1/2 genetic counseling (GC) and/or
testing has the greatest potential to affect treatment choices if it occurs prior to definitive …

Purpose An inconclusive DNA-result for breast cancer may leave women with uncertainty
that cannot be relieved. We assessed the influence of beliefs women held about their …