Completeness of pedigree and family cancer history for ovarian cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the completeness of pedigree and of number of pedigree analysis to know the acceptable familial history in Korean women with ovarian cancer.

Methods

Interview was conducted in 50 ovarian cancer patients for obtaining familial history three times over the 6 weeks. The completeness of pedigree is estimated in terms of familial history of disease (cancer), health status (health living, disease and death), and onset age of disease and death.

Results

The completion of pedigree was 79.3, 85.1, and 85.6% at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd time of interview and the time for pedigree analysis was 34.3, 10.8, and 3.1 minutes, respectively. The factors limiting pedigree analysis were as follows: out of contact with their relatives (38%), no living ancestors who kn

SUBMITTER: Son Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4195306 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature