Changes in life decisions and in emotions following genetic testing for cancer risk
Ilaria Durosini, Giulia Ongaro, Serena Oliveri, Valeria Sebri, Gabriella Pravettoni · 2025
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Ilaria Durosini and co-authors explore life after a cancer gene test in a 2025 study. Women who learn they carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 risk variant gain vital knowledge, but the news reshapes emotions, habits, and relationships. A fresh sense of urgency often enters their planning.
Nine Italian women with such results gave deep interviews to psycho-oncology experts online. Themes split into emotional changes, both negative and positive, and life changes, personal and social. Urgency in decisions about surgery, family, and the future ran through the accounts. The authors urge stronger psychological support and clearer doctor-patient talk for carriers, and offer the themes as a base for that work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ilaria Durosini, Giulia Ongaro, Serena Oliveri, Valeria Sebri, Gabriella Pravettoni |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |