Ownership of uncertainty: healthcare professionals counseling and treating women from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families who receive an inconclusive BRCA1/2 genetic test result.

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Published in Genet Test Mol Biomarkers on January 22, 2011

Authors

Regina Kenen1, Audrey Ardern-Jones, Elly Lynch, Rosalind Eeles

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey 08628, USA. kenen@tcnj.edu

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