The usefulness of the medical history form about family cancer history introduced newly in our hospital in breast cancer patients

Abstract

Taking a detailed family history of cancer is necessary for management of breast cancer patients. We introduced a new medical history form in addition to the existing one to improve the quality of family history recording. The nurses explained the importance of collecting detailed family history by patients or their family members before request to fill out these new forms, while they handed over the existing forms without such explanations. In this study, we examined the difference in the information recorded by the new medical history form and the existing one in 91 patients with breast cancer. The numbers of records on family history of cancer obtained by the new medical history form were more than that by the existing one in many patients （54.9 percent of the patients）. 171 records on family history of cancer were obtained by the new medical history form and 89 records by the existing one in 91 patients. The amount of information on family history of cancer increased by adding the new medical history form in this study.