Journal article
Health professionals’ evaluation of delivering treatment-focused genetic testing to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer
KFL Douma, B Meiser, J Kirk, G Mitchell, C Saunders, B Rahman, MS Sousa, K Barlow-Stewart, M Gleeson, K Tucker
Familial Cancer | Published : 2015
Abstract
Increasingly, women are offered genetic testing shortly after diagnosis of breast cancer to facilitate decision-making about treatment, often referred to as ‘treatment-focused genetic testing’ (TFGT). As understanding the attitudes of health professionals is likely to inform its integration into clinical care we surveyed professionals who participated in our TFGT randomized control study. Thirty-six completed surveys were received (response rate 59 %), 15 (42 %) health professionals classified as genetic and 21 (58 %) as non-genetic. Mainly positive experiences with participating in the TFGT trial were reported. The high cost of testing and who could best deliver information about TGFT to th..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was funded as part of a Priority-Driven Collaborative Research Scheme grant that was jointly supported by Cancer Australia, Cancer Council and the National Breast Cancer Foundation (ID 630405). Bettina Meiser is supported by a Career Development Fellowship Award from the National Health and Medical Research Council Australia and a Cancer Institute New South Wales Career Development Fellowship. Kirsten Douma is supported by a Fellowship Award from the Dutch Cancer Society (UVA 2011-4918). We thank the health professionals who participated in this study. We gratefully acknowledge the support and endorsement of the Psycho-oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG) for this project.