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SUBMITTER: Taber JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4568160 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taber Jennifer M JM Aspinwall Lisa G LG Stump Tammy K TK Kohlmann Wendy W Champine Marjan M Leachman Sancy A SA
Journal of behavioral medicine 20150716 5
It is unknown whether or why genetic test reporting confers benefits in the understanding and management of cancer risk beyond what patients learn from counseling based on family history. A prospective nonexperimental control group study compared participants from melanoma-prone families who underwent CDKN2A/p16 (p16) genetic testing (27 carriers, 38 noncarriers) to participants from equivalently melanoma-prone families known not to carry a deleterious p16 mutation (31 no-test controls). All par ...[more]