The experience of receiving a letter from a cancer genetics clinic about risk for hereditary cancer

A Öfverholm, P Karlsson, A Rosén - European Journal of Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Direct contact may be an option for supporting disclosure in families with hereditary cancer
risk. In this qualitative interview study, we explored how healthy at-risk relatives experience …

The impact of proband indication for genetic testing on the uptake of cascade testing among relatives

TJ Schmidlen, SL Bristow, KE Hatchell, ED Esplin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Although multiple factors can influence the uptake of cascade genetic testing, the impact of
proband indication has not been studied. We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional …

Healthcare professionals' responsibility for informing relatives at risk of hereditary disease

K Grill, A Rosén - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary
conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients' relatives. For example, the success …

Public support for healthcare-mediated disclosure of hereditary cancer risk information: Results from a population-based survey in Sweden

A Andersson, C Hawranek, A Öfverholm… - Hereditary Cancer in …, 2020 - Springer
Background Targeted surveillance of at-risk individuals in families with increased risk of
hereditary cancer is an effective prevention strategy if relatives are identified, informed and …

How to inform at‐risk relatives? Attitudes of 1379 Dutch patients, relatives, and members of the general population

L Marleen van den Heuvel, D Stemkens… - Journal of genetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The uptake of predictive DNA testing in families with a hereditary disease is< 50%. Current
practice often relies on the proband to inform relatives about the possibility of predictive DNA …

Direct letters to relatives at risk of hereditary cancer—study protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial of healthcare-assisted versus family-mediated risk …

C Hawranek, H Ehrencrona, A Öfverholm, BN Hellquist… - Trials, 2023 - Springer
Background The results of germline genetic testing for hereditary cancer are of importance
not only to the patients under investigation but also to their genetic at-risk relatives. Standard …

A focus group study of perceptions of genetic risk disclosure in members of the public in Sweden:“I'll phone the five closest ones, but what happens to the other ten?”

C Hawranek, S Hajdarevic, A Rosén - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study explores perceptions and preferences on receiving genetic risk information about
hereditary cancer risk in members of the Swedish public. We conducted qualitative content …

Public attitudes challenge clinical practice on genetic risk disclosure in favour of healthcare-provided direct dissemination to relatives

A Rosén, M Krajc, H Ehrencrona… - European Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
The increased usage of genetic testing for treatment stratification within the era of precision
medicine entails the potential to detect germline genetic risk variants. Germline genetic …

Communicating unexpected pharmacogenomic results to biobank contributors: a focus group study

KM Meagher, SH Curtis, S Borucki, A Beck… - Patient Education and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives The goals of this study were to explore 1) the impact of returning unexpected
pharmacogenomic (PGx) results to biobank contributors, and 2) participant views about …

The impact of a cascade testing video on recipients' knowledge, cognitive message processing, and affective reactions: A formative evaluation

AM Aeilts, KM Carpenter, SR Hovick… - Journal of genetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cascade genetic testing is essential to clarify cancer risk in families with hereditary breast
and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) due to pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 or …