Purpose/Objectives: To examine the effects of tailored message education about breast cancer risk in obese Korean women. Design: Pretest/post-test with two comparison treatments. Setting: Rural community settings in South Korea. Sample: Non-random sample of 64 obese women. Methods: Based on the...

Genetic testing for germline hereditary predisposition syndromes usually involves traditional Sanger DNA sequencing (see Figure 1). New advances in genomic technologies have led to reduced cost and turnaround time with the simultaneous testing of multiple genes. This, in turn, has led to the...

Purpose/Objectives: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a targeted educational intervention to increase mammography screening among Chinese American women. Design: One-group pre- and post-test quasiexperimental design. Setting: Metropolitan areas of Portland, OR. Sample: 44 foreign-born...

Hereditary breast cancer is responsible for about 5%-10% of all breast cancer cases and is frequently associated with the inheritance of a germline mutation in one of two genes, BRCA1 (chromosome 17) or BRCA2 (chromosome 13). Inheritance of a mutation in one of these genes confers a high cumulative...