Kimberly A. Kaphingst|Christina Lachance|Celeste M. Condit
Beliefs About Heritability of Cancer and Health Information Seeking and Preventive Behaviors
National Human Genome Research Institute|National Human Genome Research Institute|University of Georgia
individuals beliefs cancer heritability could affect health information seeking health behaviorsdata 5813 englishspeaking adult respondents 2003 health information national trends survey analyzedindividuals believed knowledge family history genes reduce cancer risk significantly likely ever looked cancer information ever smokers believed genes main cause lung cancer significantly likely smoke currentlypatients need educated genetic susceptibility cancer ways support information seeking engagement protective behaviors