Risk-Stratified Approach to Breast Cancer Screening in Canada: Women’s Knowledge of the Legislative Context and Concerns about Discrimination from Genetic and Other Predictive Health Data

Risk-Stratified Approach to Breast Cancer Screening in Canada: Women’s Knowledge of the Legislative Context and Concerns about Discrimination from Genetic and Other Predictive Health Data

The success of risk-stratified approaches in improving population-based breast cancer screening programs depends in no small part on women’s buy-in. Fear of genetic discrimination (GD) could be a potential barrier to genetic testing uptake as part of risk assessment. Thus, the objective of this stud...

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Main Authors: Samuel Alarie, Julie Hagan, Gratien Dalpé, Sina Faraji, Cynthia Mbuya-Bienge, Hermann Nabi, Nora Pashayan, Jennifer D. Brooks, Michel Dorval, Jocelyne Chiquette, Laurence Eloy, Annie Turgeon, Laurence Lambert-Côté, Jean-Sébastien Paquette, Meghan J. Walker, Julie Lapointe, Palmira Granados Moreno, Kristina Blackmore, Michael Wolfson, Mireille Broeders, The PERSPECTIVE I&I Study Group, Bartha M. Knoppers, Anna M. Chiarelli, Jacques Simard, Yann Joly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Personalized Medicine
Subjects:
breast cancer
risk-stratified screening
population survey
genetic discrimination
women’s perspectives
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/11/8/726

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