Is it acceptable to approach colorectal cancer patients at diagnosis to discuss genetic testing? A pilot study

In this pilot study, the acceptability of approaching 111 newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients with the offer of genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) was assessed. A total of 78% of participants found it highly acceptable to have the information about HNPCC bro...

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Autores principales: Porteous, M, Dunckley, M, Appleton, S, Catt, S, Dunlop, M, Campbell, H, Cull, A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2003
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Clinical
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14562005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601332
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author Porteous, M
Dunckley, M
Appleton, S
Catt, S
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Campbell, H
Cull, A
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description In this pilot study, the acceptability of approaching 111 newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients with the offer of genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) was assessed. A total of 78% of participants found it highly acceptable to have the information about HNPCC brought to their attention at that time.
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spelling pubmed-23943442009-09-10 Is it acceptable to approach colorectal cancer patients at diagnosis to discuss genetic testing? A pilot study Porteous, M Dunckley, M Appleton, S Catt, S Dunlop, M Campbell, H Cull, A Br J Cancer Clinical In this pilot study, the acceptability of approaching 111 newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients with the offer of genetic testing for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) was assessed. A total of 78% of participants found it highly acceptable to have the information about HNPCC brought to their attention at that time. Nature Publishing Group 2003-10-20 2003-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2394344/ /pubmed/14562005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601332 Text en Copyright © 2003 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_fullStr Is it acceptable to approach colorectal cancer patients at diagnosis to discuss genetic testing? A pilot study
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title_short Is it acceptable to approach colorectal cancer patients at diagnosis to discuss genetic testing? A pilot study
title_sort is it acceptable to approach colorectal cancer patients at diagnosis to discuss genetic testing? a pilot study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14562005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6601332
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