UNDERSTANDING THE UNMET NEEDS OF YOUNG FEMALE MUTATION CARRIERS LIVING WITH CANCER RISK

Oncologists' perspectives of telephone genetic counseling to facilitate germline BRCA1/2 testing for their patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer

Pierre Hemming, Rajneesh Kaur, Bettina Meiser, Joanne McKinley, Mary-Anne Young, Paul A James, Laura E Forrest

2021-05-06

Poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors offer a survival advantage to women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer who have a ..

Finding the five-year window: A qualitative study examining young women's decision-making and experience of using tamoxifen to reduceBRCA1/2breast cancer risk

Laura E Forrest, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Mary-Anne Young, Louise A Keogh, Paul A James

2020-10-11

OBJECTIVE: Tamoxifen has been demonstrated to reduce breast cancer risk in high-risk, premenopausal women. Yet, very few young wom..

Social media usage in family communication about genetic information: 'I no longer speak with my sister but she needed to know'

Sarah Leighton, Laura E Forrest, Mary-Anne Young, Martin B Delatycki, Elly Lynch

2020-07-09

The use of social media has become a ubiquitous form of communication. Little is known about whether social media is used in famil..

"I need to know if I'm going to die young": Adolescent and young adult experiences of genetic testing for Li-Fraumeni syndrome

Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Allison Werner-Lin, Louise A Keogh, Martin B Delatycki, Laura E Forrest

2020-05-23

PURPOSE: This study explored the genetic testing experiences of adolescents and young adults (AYAs; aged 15-39 years) with, or at ..

Parental experiences and genetic counsellor roles in Pierre Robin sequence

Rhiannon Sandow, Nicky M Kilpatrick, Tiong Yang Tan, Supriya Raj, Laura Elenor Forrest

2020-05-06

Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) is a craniofacial abnormality comprising micrognathia, glossoptosis and airway obstruction, which can ..

Health professionals' practice for young people with, or at risk of, Li-Fraumeni syndrome: An Australasian survey

Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Louise A Keogh, Allison Werner-Lin, Martin B Delatycki, Laura E Forrest

2019-12-23

Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), a rare cancer syndrome caused by pathogenic germline variants in TP53, has serious implications for ad..

Evaluation of telephone genetic counselling to facilitate germline BRCA1/2 testing in women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer

Erin Tutty, Lara Petelin, Joanne McKinley, Mary-Anne Young, Bettina Meiser, Victoria M Rasmussen, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Paul A James, Laura E Forrest

2019-08-01

Systemic healthcare issues and geographical challenges restrict women's access to BRCA1/2 testing to inform the use of tailored tr..

Men's experiences of recontact about a potential increased risk of prostate cancer due to Lynch Syndrome: "Just another straw on the stack"

Victoria Rasmussen, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Laura Elenor Forrest, Paul A James, Mary-Anne Young

2019-08-01

The practice of recontacting patients to provide new health information is becoming increasingly common in clinical genetics, desp..

Decision-making and experience of tamoxifen as chemoprevention to manage breast cancer risk for young women with a BRCA1/2 mutation

LE Forrest, R Forbes Shepherd, M Young, LA Keogh, PA James

2019-07-01

"A Natural Progression": Australian Women's Attitudes About an Individualized Breast Screening Model

Jocelyn Lippey, Louise A Keogh, G Bruce Mann, Ian G Campbell, Laura E Forrest

2019-06-01

Individualized screening is our logical next step to improve population breast cancer screening in Australia. To explore breast sc..

High-risk women's risk perception after receiving personalized polygenic breast cancer risk information

Laura Elenor Forrest, Sarah Dilys Sawyer, Nina Hallowell, Paul Andrew James, Mary-Anne Young

2019-04-01

Evidence is accumulating of the clinical utility of single nucleotide polymorphisms to effectively stratify risk of breast cancer...

A Systematic Review of How Young People Live with Inherited Disease: What Can We Learn for Li-Fraumeni Syndrome?

Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Alexandra Lewis, Louise A Keogh, Allison Werner-Lin, Martin B Delatycki, Laura E Forrest

2018-10-01

PURPOSE: Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), a multiorgan cancer predisposition caused by germline TP53 mutations, confers significant can..

Making Sense of SNPs: Women's Understanding and Experiences of Receiving a Personalized Profile of Their Breast Cancer Risks

Mary-Anne Young, Laura Elenor Forrest, Victoria-Mae Rasmussen, Paul James, Gillian Mitchell, Sarah Dilys Sawyer, Katrina Reeve, Nina Hallowell

2018-06-01

Genome wide association studies have identified a number of common genetic variants - single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) - tha..

A comparison of Australian and French families affected by sarcoma: perceptions of genetics and incidental findings

Victoria Rasmussen, Laura E Forrest, Muriel Rogasik, Magali Girodet, Pierre Meeus, Marie-Pierre Sunyach, Jean-Yves Blay, Olivia Bally, Mehdi Brahmi, Mandy L Ballinger, Eveline Niedermayr, David M Thomas, Jane Halliday, Paul James, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Mary-Anne Young

2018-01-01

AIM: To compare Australian and French perceptions of genetics and preferences regarding the return of incidental findings. METHODS..

Consumer attitudes towards the establishment of a national Australian familial cancer research database by the Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) Partnership

Laura Forrest, Gillian Mitchell, Letitia Thrupp, Lara Petelin, Kate Richardson, Lyon Mascarenhas, Mary-Anne Young

2018-01-01

Clinical genetics units hold large amounts of information which could be utilised to benefit patients and their families. In Austr..

Clinically Significant Germline Mutations in Cancer-Causing Genes Identified Through Research Studies Should Be Offered to Research Participants by Genetic Counselors

Laura E Forrest, Mary-Anne Young

2016-03-20

Connecting patients, researchers and clinical genetics services: the experiences of participants in the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study (AOCS)

Ashley Crook, Loren Plunkett, Laura E Forrest, Nina Hallowell, Samantha Wake, Kathryn Alsop, Margaret Gleeson, David Bowtell, Gillian Mitchell, Mary-Anne Young

2015-02-01

Population-based genetic research may produce information that has clinical implications for participants and their family. Resear..