Oral Presentation COSA-IPOS Joint Scientific Meeting 2012

Next generation prevention of hereditary breast/ovarian cancer: What daughters of mutation carriers know and feel and what they want to know (#272)

Andrea Patenaude 1 , Nadine M. Tung 2 , Leif W. Ellisen 3 , Larissa Hewitt 1 , Julie Aldridge 1 , Judy E. Garber 1
  1. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States
  2. Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA , United States
  3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA , United States
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