Volunteer shortage hinders cancer study
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The International Breast Cancer Intervention Study, which began operating at the end of 1993, originally aimed to recruit 15,000 women with a family history of breast cancer in order to study the impact of the drug tamoxifen in preventing breast cancer developing. However, it has managed to recruit only 2,000 volunteers, mainly because of negative publicity about the possible side-effects of the drug. THe future of the trial is now in doubt.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1996
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The family interviewer
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Family interviewers involved with genetic fieldwork aim to collect medical and genealogical information about a family in an attempt to draw up a family tree. Blood samples are taken for genetic linkage analysis. Breast cancer predisposition is one area investigated by such interviewers. The interviewers are placed in contact with the patient through the genetics department and all information exchanged is confidential.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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Developments in the study of familial breast cancer
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Around 5% of breast cancers could be caused by dominant cancer-predisposition genes, representing some 1,250 cases per year in the UK alone, and 9,000 in the US. Familial breast cancer is caused by several different genes, of which six have already been identified, five have been cloned and the location of the last has been identified. These six genes are not the only ones responsible for familial breast cancer.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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