Cancer screening and risk-reducing behaviors of women seeking genetic cancer risk assessment for breast and ovarian cancers

Oncology Nursing Forum
Deborah J MacDonaldJeffrey N Weitzel

Abstract

To examine breast and ovarian cancer screening and risk-reducing behaviors of women seeking genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA). Descriptive, cross-sectional. An insurance-based clinic that serves high-risk patients in a southern California cancer center. 134 women with breast or ovarian cancer (affected group) and 80 women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer (unaffected group). The mean age of the sample was 48 years (range = 21-86), 79% were Caucasian, 66% were married, 60% were college educated, and 78% had children. Most affected women had early-stage disease. Unaffected women had a family history of breast (86%) or ovarian (14%) cancer. Mailed surveys assessed pre-GCRA health behaviors and health and family histories. Breast cancer screening (mammograms, clinical breast examination [CBE], breast self-examination), ovarian cancer screening (CA-125, pelvic ultrasound), and breast and ovarian cancer risk-reducing strategies (tamoxifen, bilateral mastectomy, oral contraceptive pills, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy). Twenty-one percent of the women who should have been having a mammogram had not had an annual examination as recommended, and 30% of affected women had not had annual CBEs. Few women took tamoxifen...Continue Reading

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