Marijke Wevers assessed the behavioural and psychosocial impact of offering rapid genetic counceling and testing to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. She uses the results of a prospective, randomised clinical trial as well as retrospective data on the impact of RGTC and on the uptake of risk-reducing surgery in women with hereditary breast cancer.
M.R. Wevers: Rapid Genetic Counseling and Testing in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer: Surgical and Psychosocial Implications.
Supervisors
Prof. N.K. Aaronson
Prof. E.J.T. Rutgers
Co-supervisors
Dr S. Verhoef (UMC)
Dr M.G.E.M. Ausems (LUMC)