This phase II trial studies how well a telephone genetic counseling intervention works in enhancing genetic cancer risk assessment in Latinas at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Genetic counseling may help providers and patients make decisions for cancer prevention or cancer treatment. Adapting a telephone genetic counseling intervention in Spanish for Latinas who are at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may enhance their use of genetic counseling services.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT03959267.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To culturally adapt the telephone genetic counseling intervention for Latina women at-risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Explore communication patterns in 20 telephone genetic counseling (TGC) and genetic counseling sessions with an interpreter using quantitative and qualitative methods.
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Patients receive educational material consisting of information about the genetic counseling sessions. Patients then participate in a telephone genetic counseling session over 90 minutes. Patients may also undergo collection of saliva for genetic testing after first genetic counseling session. Patients who undergo collection of saliva then participate in a second telephone genetic counseling session over 30 minutes to discuss the test results.
After completion of study, patients are followed up at 3 months.
Lead OrganizationMedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Principal InvestigatorAlejandra Hurtado de Mendoza
