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Women Rarely Mention Family History to their Doctors.(breast cancer)
2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women infrequently raise the issue of a family history of breast cancer when consulting their doctor or nurse-practitioner, reported the Women's Concerns Study Group in the January 5, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal.
Following the availability of genetic tests for breast cancer, genetic centers have reported increasing referral, often of women who are at low risk by current knowledge, but who are concerned about the implications of their family history. To inform better management in primary care, all primary care consultations between women (16 years and over) and doctors and nurses (clinicians) in 18 practices were counted over four-week periods between August 1997 and July 1998. Mention of a family history of breast cancer was recorded in less than 4% ...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly April 17, 2003 700+ words
...with noncarriers. A family history of breast cancer can be an indication...of 99) had a strong family history of breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer...of women without a family history of breast cancer. "Our findings underline...
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- Newspaper article from: Cancer Gene Therapy Week May 19, 2003 700+ words
...Elucidating family history from breast cancer patients is important...women diagnosed with breast cancer. Establishment of family history could help with...with early-onset breast cancer by family history. Lancet, 2003...
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- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Jancin, Bruce January 1, 2004 700+ words
...diagnosis of bilateral breast cancer came at age 50 or later. In women without a family history of breast cancer before age 50 or ovarian...women with bilateral breast cancer before age 50 but a negative family history was not significantly...
- Breastfeeding associated with reduced risk of breast cancer among women with...
- News wire article from: Xinhua News Agency August 11, 2009 700+ words
...with reduced risk of breast cancer among women with family history: study WASHINGTON...Women with a family history of breast cancer appear to have a...that women with a family history of breast cancer should be strongly...
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- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health August 30, 2009 700+ words
Women with a family history of breast cancer appear to have a...breastfeeding and breast cancer among women without a family history. Women who did not...that women with a family history of breast cancer should be strongly...
- A questionnaire may triage breast cancer risk based on family history.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week July 14, 2003 700+ words
2003 JUL 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A questionnaire may triage breast cancer risk based on family history. "Family history of breast cancer is a more important aspect of clinical management following the discovery of the genes...
- Breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in women with a family history of...
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science August 30, 2009 700+ words
...study, women with a family history of breast cancer were 59 percent less...news for women with a family history of breast cancer," says Alison Stuebe...among women without a family history of breast cancer. For women with a...
