Dr Rachel Iredale, Prof Lesley Fallowfield, Carol Maddock, Maureen Gilbert, Cathie Lockenwitz, Francisca Bach Kolling-Dandrieu and Roswitha Britz discuss talking to the family of patients with a genetic risk of breast cancer.
What advice or support about how to tell other members of your family about being a gene carrier were you given?
What works well?
We would like to thank the following patient organisations for their help:
The Danish Breast Cancer OrganisationThe Federation of Breast Cancer in Spain and the Dutch breast cancer site
www.borstkanker.nl &
www.brca.nl (The advocacy site for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer)