Experience with a nurse-driven genetic counseling pathway of Italian women with uninformative BRCA test result.

ABSTRACT: Several models of genetic counseling have been proposed to tackle the increasing volume of individuals requiring access to BRCA testing. Few data are available on patient experience and retention of information with nurse-driven genetic counseling. We evaluated the experience and retention of information in women with an uninformative BRCA test result and who were not considered at high risk due to their personal/family history of cancer who underwent geneticist-supervised nurse-driven genetic counseling and who received their test result by phone. Women who received an uninformative BRCA test result between May 2017 and September 2019 were administered a questionnaire exploring experience with genetic counseling and retention of information provided. Of 366 eligible women, 299 (273 breast

SUBMITTER: Blondeaux E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087002 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature