Genetic Testing For Cancer: Psychological Approaches for Helping Patients and Families

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ISBN: 9781591471103 | 1591471109
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/1/2004

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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Provides an understanding of the psychological issues patients and families experience when confronted with the prospect of learning their genetic tie to cancer and other serious diseases. Discusses the emotional impact of receiving genetic results, family and child-related matters, and the challenge of making medical decisions.

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Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction. The Genetic Revolution: Where Are We?	3	(14)
Chapter 1. Genes and Cancer: The Basics	17	(24)
Chapter 2. Cancer Genes and Cancer Risk	41	(32)
Chapter 3. Genetic Counseling for Cancer Genes	73	(36)
Chapter 4. Emotional Baggage: Unresolved Grief, Emotional Distress, Risk Perception, and Health Beliefs and Behaviors	109	(32)
Chapter 5. Opening Pandora's Box: Disclosure of the Results of Cancer Genetic Testing	141	(28)
Chapter 6. Prophylactic Surgery	169	(36)
Chapter 7. A Family Matter	205	(24)
Chapter 8. Children and Genetic Testing	229	(22)
Chapter 9. Social and Ethical Issues: Duty to Warn, Autonomy, Privacy, and Discrimination	251	(16)
Chapter 10. Genetics and Social Change	267	(10)
Additional Resources	277	(8)
Index	285	(20)
About the Author	305

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Genetic Testing For Cancer: Psychological Approaches for Helping Patients and Families

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