TY - JOUR
T1 - Are we ready for personalized cancer risk management? The view from breast-care providers
AU - Komatsu, Hiroko
AU - Yagasaki, Kaori
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Personalized medicine, the tailoring of prevention and treatment, is the future of routine clinical practice. This approach has started to appear in genetic testing for predisposition to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). We explored how breast-care providers perceived HBOC risk management, using grounded theory. This study found that the frontline healthcare providers perceived HBOC risk management as still being neglected in breast cancer care. Emerging challenges included treatment priority, hesitancy to deal with sensitive issues, easily missed risks, genetic data not being shared among multidisciplinary professionals, and patients being lost to follow-up. Oncology nurses are ideally placed to facilitate communication and utilization of genetic information among multidisciplinary professionals. Specialized outpatient clinics need to be established to follow up individuals at high risk. There is a need to create a system to meet the future demands of personalized medicine in nursing practice.
AB - Personalized medicine, the tailoring of prevention and treatment, is the future of routine clinical practice. This approach has started to appear in genetic testing for predisposition to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). We explored how breast-care providers perceived HBOC risk management, using grounded theory. This study found that the frontline healthcare providers perceived HBOC risk management as still being neglected in breast cancer care. Emerging challenges included treatment priority, hesitancy to deal with sensitive issues, easily missed risks, genetic data not being shared among multidisciplinary professionals, and patients being lost to follow-up. Oncology nurses are ideally placed to facilitate communication and utilization of genetic information among multidisciplinary professionals. Specialized outpatient clinics need to be established to follow up individuals at high risk. There is a need to create a system to meet the future demands of personalized medicine in nursing practice.
KW - Health-care team
KW - Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome
KW - Personal genetic information
KW - Personalized medicine
KW - Risk management
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U2 - 10.1111/ijn.12115
DO - 10.1111/ijn.12115
M3 - Article
C2 - 24580974
AN - SCOPUS:84894608929
VL - 20
SP - 39
EP - 45
JO - International Journal of Nursing Practice
JF - International Journal of Nursing Practice
SN - 1322-7114
IS - 1
ER -