How do individuals decide whether to accept or decline an offer of genetic testing for colorectal cancer?

From: 14th Annual Meeting of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer Dallas, TX, USA 12-13 October 2010 Author details 1-Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AustraliaEMPTY 2-Centre for Molecular, E...

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Published in:Hereditary cancer in clinical practice 2011-03, Vol.9 (Suppl 1), p.P17-P17
Main Authors: Keogh, Louise, McClaren, Belinda, Maskiell, Judith, Niven, Heather, Rutstein, Alison, Flander, Louisa, Gaff, Clara, Hopper, John, Jenkins, Mark
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Language:English
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Colleges & universities
Decision making
Genetics
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Summary:From: 14th Annual Meeting of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer Dallas, TX, USA 12-13 October 2010 Author details 1-Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AustraliaEMPTY 2-Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AustraliaEMPTY 3-Departments of Paediatrics and Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AustraliaEMPTY Supplemental Information: Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this supplement is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1897-4287-9-S1-full.pdf.EMPTY Background Since 1997, the Victorian Colorectal Cancer Family Study (VCCFS) has been studying a large number of individuals who have had colorectal cancer and their relatives.
ISSN:1897-4287
1731-2302
1897-4287
DOI:10.1186/1897-4287-9-S1-P17