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Waiting for cancer to come : women's experiences with genetic testing & medical decision making for breast and ovarian cancer / Sharlene Hesse-Biber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's Health.
- Decision Making.
- Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--genetics.
- Genetic Testing.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women's Health.
- Decision Making.
- Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome--genetics.
- Genetic Testing.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- When a young woman loses a mother and sister to breast cancer and finds out her risk of cancer is high as well, what should she do? Waiting for Cancer to Come is the first book to explore the range of struggles women like this face each day to address their genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Complicated emotional, social, economic, and psychological factors are at play in the lives of women who test positive for the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation that indicate a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Based on interviews and surveys of over sixty diverse women, Waiting for Cancer to Come explores family crises, personal empowerment, secrets and revelations, and difficult surgeries that come with a BRCA-positive mutation test. The narrative is carried by the stories of these women and supported by previous research on BRCA testing. For the first time, this book brings solid research into a format that can give women and their families struggling with the risk of cancer new insights into the experience of waiting for cancer to come. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The genetic testing industry : capitalizing on fear, selling empowerment
- Ready for the test
- You're BRCA positive?
- Waiting and watching
- The surgical fix
- Finding a new normal
- Toward empowerment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472120352
- 0472120352
- 9780472072194
- 9780472052196
- 0472072196
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5660855
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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