Soo Yeo

Towards cultural competence in cancer genetic counselling and genetics education: lessons learned from Chinese-Australians (2006)

Barlow-Stewart, Kristine, Yeo, Soo, Eisenbruch, Maurice

Purpose: In societies such as Australia with a strong multicultural makeup, culturally determined attitudes to genetics, testing, and counseling may be incompatible with current genetics service...

Understanding community beliefs of Chinese-Australians about cancer: Initial insights using an ethnographic approach (2005)

Yeo, Soo, Barlow-Stewart, Kristine, Eisenbruch, Maurice

Ethnography was employed to investigate the hypothesis that the cultural meaning of cancer is one of the possible barriers to access of cancer services. The objectives were to identify indigenous...

Optimising clinical practice in cancer genetics with cultural competence: lessons to be learned from ethnographic research with Chinese-Australians (2003)

Yeo, Soo, Barlow-Stewart, K

Hereditary cancer is about families, and clinicians and genetic counsellors need to understand the cultural beliefs of patients and families about cancer and inheritance. In the light of their...