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Long-Term Psychological Impact of Carrying a BRCA1/2 Mutation and Prophylactic Surgery: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study
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Purpose: To explore long-term psychosocial consequences of carrying a BRCA1/2 mutation and to identify possible risk factors for long-term psychological distress. Patients and Methods: Five years after genetic test disclosure, 65 female participants (23 carriers, 42 noncarriers) of our psychological follow-up study completed a questionnaire and 51 participants were interviewed. We assessed general and hereditary cancer-related distress, risk perception, openness to discuss the test result with relatives, body image and sexual functioning. Results: Carriers did not differ from noncarriers on several distress measures and both groups showed a significant increase in anxiety and depression from 1 to 5 years follow-up. Carriers having undergone prophylactic surgery (21 of 23 carriers) had a less favorable body image than noncarriers and 70% reported changes in the sexual relationship. A major psychological benefit of prophylactic surgery was a reduction in the fear of developing cancer. Predictors of long-term distress were hereditary cancer-related distress at blood sampling, having young children, and having lost a relative to breast/ovarian cancer. Long-term distress was also associated with less open communication about the test result within the family, changes in relationships with relatives, doubting about the validity of the test result, and higher risk perception. Conclusion: Our findings support the emerging consensus that genetic predisposition testing for BRCA1/2 does not pose major mental health risks, but our findings also show that the impact of prophylactic surgery on aspects such as body image and sexuality should not be underestimated, and that some women are at risk for high distress, and as a result, need more attentive care.
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- Authors
- van Oostrom, I., Meijers-Heijboer, H., Lodder, L. N., Duivenvoorden, H. J., van Gool, A. R., Seynaeve, C., van der Meer, C. A., Klijn, J. G. M., van Geel, B. N., Burger, C. W., Wladimiroff, J. W., & Tibben, A.
- Affiliations
- From the Departments of Clinical Genetics, Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Gynecology and Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam; Center of Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
- Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Published
- 2003-10-15
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 3867-3874
- ISSN
- 0732-183X (ISSN-L)
- 1527-7755
- OpenAlex
- W2123915321
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- 281
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- 52
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- FWCI
- 7.83
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- journal article
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- en
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- Journal of Clinical Oncology (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family Support in Illness
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Keywords
- BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, prophylactic surgery, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, body image, sexual function, risk perception, disclosure of genetic test results, family communication, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, risk factors for distress
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Body Image, Depression, Female, Genetic Testing, Genetic Carrier Screening, Humans, Mastectomy, Middle Aged, Mutation, Risk Factors, Sexual Behavior, Time Factors, Genes, BRCA1, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genes, BRCA2
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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