JOURNAL OF FAMILIAL TUMORS
Online ISSN : 2189-6674
Print ISSN : 1346-1052
Reaction of the Tohoku region of Familial breast cancer patients on genetic testing
Yoshinori Akama Tadashi Nomizu
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2015 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 32-38

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Hoshi General Hospital is one of the facilities that are doing BRCA genetic testing for a long time in Japan. BRCA genetic testing is 149 family accumulated so far. But year number is 0-10 testing. BRCA genetic testing of Japan is less than overseas. In this study we investigated the reaction of familial breast cancer patients for BRCA genetic testing. Economic factors were extracted from the resulting 69% of patients. 78% of them could not be BRCA genetic testing for economic factors.It is necessary to consider the appropriate way of future BRCA genetic testing and genetic counseling system, including medical and researchers,governments and patient support goups.
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© 2015 The Japanese Society for Familial Tumors
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