Age

18–any

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

Participants: patients in follow-up after breast cancer
Women ≥ 18 years of age with histologically proven breast cancer.
Primary treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy) completed maximally 5 years ago.
Participants: women with a BRCA mutation
Women ≥ 25 years of age with a proven BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.
Carrier of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, diagnosed maximally two years before inclusion.

Participants: patients in follow-up after breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer
Currently involved in a diagnostic work-up because of a suspicion of breast cancer, either primary or metastatic.
A history of prophylactic mastectomy.
Current psychiatric disease precluding consultations in a group.
Insufficient command of the Dutch language to be able to follow a group discussion and/or to fill out a Dutch questionnaire
Participants: women with a BRCA mutation
Metastatic breast cancer
Currently involved in a diagnostic work-up because of a suspicion of breast cancer, either primary or metastatic.
A history of prophylactic mastectomy.
Current psychiatric disease precluding consultations in a group.
Insufficient command of the Dutch language to be able to follow a group discussion and/or to fill out a Dutch questionnaire

Patient Empowerment by Group Medical Consultations