ReviewCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2018
What characterizes cancer family history collection tools? A critical literature review.
Review in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Family history tools for primary care: A systematic review.The European journal of general practice · 2022Pooled it
- Leveraging Health Information Technology to Collect Family Cancer History: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2021Pooled it
- Quality and Safety Imperatives in the Identification and Management of Hereditary Cancer Syndromes.Seminars in oncology nursing · 2026Review
- An Innovative Strategy for Collecting Family Health History: An Effectiveness-Implementation Trial in Primary Care Clinics.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- Usability, Engagement, and Report Usefulness of Chatbot-Based Family Health History Data Collection: Mixed Methods Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Feasibility of an electronic patient-facing cancer family history tool in medically underserved populations.Genetics in medicine open · 2024Article
- Risk for Hereditary Neoplastic Syndromes in Women with Mismatch Repair-Proficient Endometrial Cancer.Genes · 2023Article
- Predicting breast cancer risk in a racially diverse, community-based sample of potentially high-risk women.Cancer medicine · 2022Article
- Association of Disparities in Family History and Family Cancer History in the Electronic Health Record With Sex, Race, Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity, and Language Preference in 2 Large US Health Care Systems.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Literacy-adapted, electronic family history assessment for genetics referral in primary care: patient user insights from qualitative interviews.Hereditary cancer in clinical practice · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Americans reporting a family history of cancer indicative of increased cancer risk: Estimates from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Adaptation and early implementation of the PREdiction model for gene mutations (PREMMFamilial cancer · 2022Article
- Environmental scan of family chart linking for genetic cascade screening in a U.S. integrated health system.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- High-burden Cancers in Middle-income Countries: A Review of Prevention and Early Detection Strategies Targeting At-risk Populations.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Review
- How is family health history discussed in routine primary healthcare? A qualitative study of archived family doctor consultations.BMJ open · 2021Article
- What do cancer patients' relatives think about addressing cancer family history and performing genetic testing in palliative care?European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of interventions to identify and manage patients with familial cancer risk in primary care: a systematic review.Journal of community genetics · 2020Article
- Family health history: underused for actionable risk assessment.Lancet (London, England) · 2019Review
- Persistent Underutilization of BRCA1/2 Testing Suggest the Need for New Approaches to Genetic Testing Delivery.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Many tools have been developed for the standardized collection of cancer family history (fh). However, it remains unclear which tools have the potential to help health professionals overcome traditional barriers to collecting such histories. In this review, we describe the characteristics, validation process, and performance of existing tools and appraise the extent to which those tools can support health professionals in identifying and managing at-risk individuals. Methods: Studies were identified through searches of the medline, embase, and Cochrane central databases from October 2015 to September 2016. Articles were included if they described a cancer fh collection tool, its use, and its validation process. Results: Based on seventy-nine articles published between February 1978 and September 2016, 62 tools were identified. Most of the tools were paper-based and designed to be self-administered by lay individuals. One quarter of the tools could automatically produce pedigrees, provide cancer-risk assessment, and deliver evidence-based recommendations. One third of the tools were validated against a standard reference for collected fh quality and cancer-risk assessment. Only 3 tools were integrated into an electronic health records system. Conclusions: In the present review, we found no tool with characteristics that might make it an efficient clinical support for health care providers in cancer-risk identification and management. Adequately validated tools that are connected to electronic health records are needed to encourage the systematic identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.