Emotional and behavioural reactions to melanoma genomic risk information

Abstract

Melanoma is the most deadly type of skin cancer, and in countries like Australia, the number of people who develop melanoma is high. A new approach to further improving the prevention and early detection of melanoma aims to better understand people's chances, or risk, of developing melanoma by looking at their genes and then providing them with their genetic risk of melanoma information. This Australian‐based study explored how people react to receiving this type of information. Thirty people were interviewed who had no personal history of melanoma and had previously received their genetic risk results, along with information on how to prevent melanoma and a telephone call from a genetic cou..