Time to prophylactic surgery in BRCA1/2 carriers depends on psychological and other characteristics
Author(s) -
Claire JulianReynier,
AnneDéborah Bouhnik,
Emanuelle Mouret-Fourme,
Marion Gauthier-Villars,
Pascaline Berthet,
Christine Lasset,
JeanPierre Fricker,
Olivier Caron,
Paul Gesta,
Elisabeth Luporsi,
Laurence Faivre,
Michel Longy,
Laurence Gladieff,
Marc Frénay,
Hélène Dreyfus,
H. Sobol,
Philippe Vennin,
Catherine Noguès
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
genetics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.509
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1530-0366
pISSN - 1098-3600
DOI - 10.1097/gim.0b013e3181f48d1c
Subject(s) - prophylactic surgery , hazard ratio , medicine , psychosocial , prophylactic mastectomy , cohort , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , breast cancer , proportional hazards model , mastectomy , surgery , gynecology , confidence interval , cancer , psychiatry , computer science , artificial intelligence
To investigate the medical and psychosocial factors determining the time to prophylactic surgery of unaffected women carriers of a deleterious BRCA1/2 mutation.
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