Table 1 Participants’ characteristics.
From: The experience of receiving a letter from a cancer genetics clinic about risk for hereditary cancer
Characteristics | n |
|---|---|
Gender | |
Women | 9 |
Men | 5 |
Age (years) | |
18–40 | 5 |
40–65 | 4 |
> 65 | 5 |
Area of residence | |
Countryside | 7 |
Urban area | 4 |
City | 3 |
Parenthood | |
No children | 2 |
Children, underaged or adult | 12 |
Occupational and educational level | |
Occupation requiring primary or secondary education or vocational training | 8 |
Occupation requiring tertiary education | 6 |
Associated cancer in a first-degree relative | |
Yes | 11 |
No | 3 |
Family diagnosis | |
HBOC (variants in BRCA1/BRCA2/PALB2) | 6 |
Lynch syndrome (variants in MLH1/MSH2/MSH6/PMS2) | 7 |
Familial colorectal cancer (negative genetic screening) | 1 |
Prior knowledge of the familial assessment and of the letter coming | |
Yes | 9 |
No | 5s |
