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9781591471103

Genetic Testing For Cancer: Psychological Approaches for Helping Patients and Families

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  • ISBN13:

    9781591471103

  • ISBN10:

    1591471109

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-01
  • Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Provides an understanding of the psychological issues patients and families experience when confronted with the prospect of learning their genetic tie to cancer and other serious diseases. Discusses the emotional impact of receiving genetic results, family and child-related matters, and the challenge of making medical decisions.

Author Biography

Andrea Farkas Patenaude is a psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Children's Hospital of Boston and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. The Genetic Revolution: Where Are We? 3(14)
Chapter 1. Genes and Cancer: The Basics 17(24)
Chapter 2. Cancer Genes and Cancer Risk 41(32)
Chapter 3. Genetic Counseling for Cancer Genes 73(36)
Chapter 4. Emotional Baggage: Unresolved Grief, Emotional Distress, Risk Perception, and Health Beliefs and Behaviors 109(32)
Chapter 5. Opening Pandora's Box: Disclosure of the Results of Cancer Genetic Testing 141(28)
Chapter 6. Prophylactic Surgery 169(36)
Chapter 7. A Family Matter 205(24)
Chapter 8. Children and Genetic Testing 229(22)
Chapter 9. Social and Ethical Issues: Duty to Warn, Autonomy, Privacy, and Discrimination 251(16)
Chapter 10. Genetics and Social Change 267(10)
Additional Resources 277(8)
Index 285(20)
About the Author 305

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