Fig. 1

Flowchart of women participating in the study. No variant detected = Neg, BRCA1/2 variant affecting function = Pos, Variant of uncertain significance = VUS. ¹Telephone disconnected, email undeliverable and/or survey package returned to sender. ²n = 9 had a child participate in TGC on their behalf and n = 4 required an interpreter. ³Upon follow up via telephone, n = 11 expressed an interest in the study but had yet to respond, including n = 2 positive women who explained they were too busy at the time. ⁴n = 3 stated that they could not remember their result, but were confirmed to have a negative result in the database. ⁵n = 10 were inpatients at the time of follow up (including n = 1 pos), n = 8 believed they had not received telephone genetic counselling