Table 4. Percentages of general practitioners expressing their degree of confidence in fulfilling various roles in the management of women presenting with a family history of breast cancer.

	Not confident or a little confident		Moderately confident		Confident or very confident
	Regional	Community	Regional	Community	Regional	Community
Taking detailed family history	25.6	21.8	38.8	35.7	34.9	42.6
Calculating the risk	89.9	87.8	10.1	10.4	0	0.9
Counselling on risk	83.0	75.7	13.2	20.9	3.9	2.6
Providing emotional follow-up support	17.1	23.5	42.6	39.1	40.3	37.4
Providing regular clinical examination	29.4	21.8	37.2	40.9	33.4	37.4
Teaching breast self-examination	14.0	13.9	33.3	33.0	52.8	53.0
Discussing need for mammography/colonoscopy	28.7	33.0	42.6	41.7	28.7	25.2
Deciding whether patient should be referred to regional genetic clinic	41.1	45.3	50.4	38.3	8.5	15.7