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GENETICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 172-175Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.GIM.0000068986.03217.BB
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genetic testing; cancer prevention; primary care; screening; health behavior
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- NCI NIH HHS [R25CA87972-02] Funding Source: Medline
- BHP HRSA HHS [T32PE10028-04] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose: To investigate whether the importance family physicians place on familial cancer-risk screening is influenced by expectations for the motivational impact of a high-risk genetic test result. Methods: Mailed survey of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. Results: Respondents expected patients would increase pursuit of screening for cancer (99.6%) and other diseases (89.9%), quit smoking (93.6%), and improve diet/ exercise (92.5%). The degree of motivational effect was significantly related to the importance they place on screening. Conclusions: Family physicians believe that a high-risk cancer genetic-test result would motivate their patients to pursue risk-reduction behavior, and this belief is related to the importance they place on screening their patients for an inherited risk of cancer.
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