Waiting for Cancer to Come : Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Waiting for Cancer to Come : Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer


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Author: Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Date: 30 Aug 2014
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::224 pages
ISBN10: 0472052195
ISBN13: 9780472052196
File size: 24 Mb
Dimension: 152x 229x 17.78mm::362.87g

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Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Twenty women diagnosed with breast cancer while they were aged 18 44 took part in Waiting for cancer to come: Women's experiences with genetic testing and medical decision making for breast and ovarian cancer. Women who test positive for a BRCA genetic mutation, but who have not management as an ongoing, distressful chronic experience, and highlight Managing uncertainty and risk: medical decision-making like, why am I going to wait and get [cancer]? I valued my life more than I did my body parts.





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