Abstract
A survey of familial breast cancer was conducted among postoperative breast cancer patients. The questionnaire was sent to 135 subjects who underwent the breast cancer surgery in our department between 1999 and 2004, and responses were received from 86 of 135 (response rate 63.7%). The questionnaire includes: 1. Do you know the characteristics of familial breast cancer? If there were a possibility of this kind of disease, 2. Would you want to receive genetic testing? 3. Would you want to undergo prophylactic mastectomy or oophorectomy? [Result]: Fifty percent of patients who responded to the investigation knew about “Familial breast cancer”, and there is a 73.3% of 86 samples would have liked to receive genetic testing. Most of the patients preferred regular follow-up and nobody wanted to undergo prophylactic mastectomy, while 5.8% were willing to have prophylactic oophorectomy and 8.2% chemoprevention with the anti-estrogen medicines. Most of the questionnaire responses showed uneasiness towards genetic diagnosis. True information offered by the patients, an investigation system and follow-up system are necessary for the research and treatment of familial breast cancer.
