Table 5 Acceptability for gene testing HBC/HBOC and HNPCC
From: Organization and Running of the First Comprehensive Hereditary Cancer Clinic in India
No. of patients who were offered gene testing | 203 |
No. of patients who declined gene testing | 9 |
No. of patients with a deleterious mutation/mutation of probable significance, who declined treatment at the Institute after the initial diagnosis and registration in the hereditary cancer clinic | 1/21 |
No. of patients with deleterious mutation/mutation of probable significance, who did not want to know the results, in spite of regular follow-up at the Institute | 12/21 |
No. of patients with deleterious mutation/mutation of probable significance, who took the results | 8/21 |
Number of patients who wanted predictive testing for their children/sibs | 2/8 |