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Spanish women with family history need education about breast cancer.
2004 MAR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Spanish women need interventions to increase their adherence to breast cancer screening.
According to recent research from Spain, "Women with a family history of breast cancer (FHBC) are at increased risk for developing this disease. In this study, we have investigated the differences between two groups of women; those with family history of breast cancer (n=42) and women at population risk (n=42) in a Spanish cohort. Questionnaires assessed distress, perception of breast cancer risk, screening behaviors, coping skills, personality, and quality of life."
"Neither group received genetic counseling before or after this study. Women with FHBC overestimated their risk of developing breast cancer. They report a subjective risk of developing breast cancer of 50%, with their actual risk, using the risk tables elaborated by Claus et al. (Cancer 1994;73:643), being only 15% (p
"Discriminant function analysis revealed the patients' information about breast cancer, worries about breast cancer, perception of risk based on family history, perception of lifetime risk of breast cancer and quality of life were the five variables that distinguished between both groups. Only 34% of women in the FHBC group performed monthly breast self-examination, 24% (10 subjects) had never attended previously for clinical breast ...
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