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Women's constructions of the 'right time' to consider decisions about risk-reducing mastectomy and risk-reducing oophorectomy
BACKGROUND: Women who are notified they carry a BRCA1/2 mutation are presented with surgical options to reduce their risk of breast and ovarian cancer, including risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) and risk-reducing oophorectomy (RRO). Growing evidence suggests that a sub-group of women do not make decis...
Autores principales: | Howard, A Fuchsia, Bottorff, Joan L, Balneaves, Lynda G, Kim-Sing, Charmaine |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927493/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20687957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-10-24 |
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