Reaseech Interest

Hereditary cancer

Oncogenetic counseling

Oncology nursing

Patient centered care

Symptoms management and Palliative care

 

Selected publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

Gershoni-Baruch R, Dagan E, Freid J, Kepten I, Robinson E (1999). BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder mutations in patients with bilateral breast cancer. European Journal of Human Genetics. 7: 833-6.

Gershoni-Baruch R, Patael Y, Dagan E, Figer A, Kasinetz L, Kaduri E, Bruchim Bar-Sade R, Friedman E (2000). Association of the I1307K APC mutation with hereditary and sporadic breast/ovarian cancer: more questions than answers. British Journal of Cancer. 83(2):153-5.

Gershoni-Baruch R, Dagan E, Israeli D, Kasinetz L, Kaduri E, Friedman E (2000). Association of the C677T polymorphism in the MTHFR gene and/or ovarian cancer risk in Jewish women. European Journal of Cancer. 36:2313-6.

Levi-Lahad E, Lahad A, Eisenberg S, Dagan E, Paperna T, Kasinetz L, Catane R, Kaufman B, Renbaum P, Gershoni-Baruch R (2001). A single nucleotide polymorphism in the RAD51 gene modifies cancer risk in BRCA2 but not BRCA1 carriers. Proceeding National Academy of Science. 98:3232-6.

Dagan E and Gershoni-Baruch R (2001). Hereditary breast/ovarian cancer: Pitfalls in genetic counseling. Clinical Genetics. 60:310-3.

Dagan E and Gershoni-Baruch R (2002b). Anticipation in hereditary breast cancer. Clinical Genetics. 62:147-50.

Drach-Zahavy A, Dagan E (2002). From caring to managing and beyond: An examination of the head nurse’s role. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 38(1):19-28.

Dagan E, Friedman E, Carmi N, Gershoni-Baruch R (2002). Androgen receptor CAG repeat length in Jewish Israeli women who are BRCA1/2 mutation carriers: Association with breast/ovarian cancer phenotype. European Journal of Human Genetics. 10:724-8.

Karban A, Dagan E, Eliakim R, Herman A, Nesher S, Berkovitz D, Shamir R, Gershoni-Baruch  (2005). Prevalence and significance of the familial Mediterranean fever gene in patients with Crohn’s disease. Genes and Immunity. 6:134-39.

Simchoni S, Friedman E, Kaufman B, Gershoni-Barucc R, Orr-Utreger A, Kedar-Barnes I, Shiri-Sverdlov R, Dagan E, Tsabari S, Shohat M, Catane R, King MC, Lahad A, Levi-Lahad E. (2006). Familial clustering of site-specific cancer risks associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Proceeding National Academy of Science U S A. 7;103(10):3770-4.

Dagan E, Brik R, Broza Y, Gershoni-Barucc R. (2006). Henoch-Schonlein purpura: Polymorphisms in thrombophilia genes. Pediatric Nephrology 21(8):1117-21.

Dagan E, Laitman Y,  Levanon N,  Feuer A, Sidi AA, Baniel J, Korach Y, Ben Baruch G, Friedman E, Gershoni Baruch R (2006). The 471delAAAG mutation and C353T polymorphism in the RNASEL gene in sporadic and inherited cancer in Israel. Familial Cancer. 5(4):389-95.

Dagan E, Gil S, Gershoni-Baruch R (2008). Socio-demographic and clinical profile of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers opting for prophylactic oophorectomy. Preventive Medicine. 46(5):470-2.

Dagan E (2008). Predominant Ashkenazi BRCA1/2 mutations in families with pancreatic cancer. Genetic Testing. 12(2):267-71.

Dagan E and Shochat T (2009). Quality of life in asymptomatic BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Preventive Medicine. 48(2):193-6.

Dagan E and Goldblatt H (2009). The twilight zone between health and sickness: A qualitative exploration with asymptomatic BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Women & Health.  49:263-279.

Dagan E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Ihab K, ^##Mory A, Amar N, Brik R (2010). MEFV, TNF1rA, CARD15 and NLRP3 mutation analysis in PFAPA. Rheumatology International.30:633-6.

Laitman Y, Borsthein RT, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Dagan E, Castera L, Goislard M, Gershoni-Baruch R, Goldberg H, Kaufman B, Ben-Baruch N, Zidan J, Maray T, Soussan-Gutman L, Friedman E (2011) Germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in ethnically diverse high risk families in Israel. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 127(2):489-95.

Baruch Y, Dagan E, Rozenbaum M, Massimo F, Gershoni-Baruch R, Rosner I (2011).  MEFV, TNFRSF1A and CARD15 mutation analysis in Behcet’s Disease. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. 29(4 Suppl 67):S24-7.

Dagan E, ^##Baruch Y, Massimo F , Rozenbaum M, Rosner I, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2012) Vascular Behcet and Mutations in Thrombogenic Genes: MTHFR, Factor V and Prothrombin. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 16(1):30-5

Mory A, Dagan E, Illi B, Duquesnoy P, Mordechai S, Shahor I, Romani S,  Hawash-Moustafa N, Mandel H,  Valente EM, Amselem S, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2012). A nonsense mutation in the human homolog of Drosophila rogdi causes Kohlschutter–Tonz Syndrome. American Journal of Human Genetics. 90:708-14.

Shiloh S, Dagan E, Friedman I, Blank N, Friedman E. (2013). A follow-up study on men tested for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations: impacts and coping processes. Psycho-oncology. 22(2):417-25. 

Mory A, Ruiz X F., Dagan E, Evgenia A, Kurolap A, Parés X, Farrés J and Gershoni-Baruch R. (2014). A missense mutation in the ALDH1A3 gene causes isolated anophthalmia/microphthalmia in nine individuals from a large consanguineous kindred. European Journal of Human Genetics. 22(3):419-22.

Dagan E, Cohen Y, ^##Mory A, Adir V, Borochowitz Z, Raanani H, Kurolap A, Melikhan-Revzin S, Meirow D, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2014). BRCA1/2 mutations and FMR1 alleles are randomly distributed: a case control study. European Journal of Human Genetics. 22(3):277-9.

Mory A, Dagan E, Shahor I,  Mandel H, Illi B, Zolotushko J, Kurolap A, Chechik E,  Valente EM,  Amselem S, and Gershoni-Baruch R. (2014). Kohlschutter-Tonz Syndrome: Clinical and Genetic Insights gained from sixteen cases deriving from a close knit village in Northern Israel. Pediatric Neurology. 50(4):421-6.

Dagan E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Goldberg Y, Fried G. (2014). “I do not want my baby to suffer as I did” Prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis for BRCA1/2 mutations: A case report and genetic counseling considerations. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 18(7):461-6.

Golan T, Kanji ZS, Epelbaum R, Devaud N, Dagan E, Holter S, Aderka D, Paluch-Shimon S, Kaufman B, Gershoni-Baruch R, Hedley D, Moore MJ, Friedman E, Gallinger S. (2014). Overall survival and clinical characteristics of pancreatic cancer in BRCA mutation carriers. British Journal of Cancer. 111(6):1132-8.

Dagan E, Schlesinger I, ^#Ayoub M, Mory A, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). The contribution of Niemann-Pick SMPD1 mutations to Parkinson disease in ‎Ashkenazi Jews. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. ‎21(9):1067-71.

Melikhan-Revzin S, Kurolap A, Dagan E, Mory A, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). Hereditary Lymphedema. Lymphatic Research & Biology. 13(2):107-11.

Dagan E, Adir V, Schlesinger I, Borochowitz Z, ^#Ayoub M, Mory A, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R. (2015). SMPD1 mutations and Parkinson disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 21(10):1296-7. Response to comment. Doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.08.019.

Dagan E, Schlesinger I, Kurolap A, Ayoub M, Nassar M, Peretz-Aharon J, Gershoni-Baruch R‏.‏ (2016). LRRK2, GBA and SMPD1 Founder Mutations and Parkinson’s Disease in Ashkenazi Jews‏.‏ Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 23;42(1-2):1-6.

Dagan E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Kurolap A, Fried G. (2016). Early onset breast cancer in Ashkenazi women carriers of founder BRCA1/2 mutations: beyond 10 years of follow up. European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl.). doi: 10.1111/ecc.12594.

Dubovi, I., Levy, S.T. & Dagan, E. (2017). Now I Know How! The Learning Process of Medication Administration among Nursing Students with Virtual Reality Simulation. Computers and Education. 113:16-27

Dubovi, I., Levy, S.T. & Dagan, E. (2017) Pushing Syringes, Diluting Solutions, and Splicing Tablets to Improve Proportional Reasoning: Nursing Students’ Situated Simulation-Based Learning. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 1-19. Doi:10.1007/s10763-017-9842-2

Drach-Zahavy A, Broyer C, Dagan E. (2017). Similarity and accuracy of mental models formed during nursing handovers: A concept mapping approach. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 74:24-33.

Dagan E, Friedman E, Birenbaum-Carmeli D, Feldman‎ B. (2017). Performing and Declining PGD: Accounts of Jewish Israeli Women Who Carry a BRCA1/2 Mutation or Partners of Male Mutation Carriers. Journal of Genetic Counseling. 26:1070-1079. Doi: 10.1007/s10897-017-0087-6.

Dagan E, Birenbaum-Carmeli D, ^#Modiano Gattegno S. (2017). “My choice”: breast cancer patients recollect doctors fertility preservation recommendations. Supportive Care Cancer. 25:2421-2428. Doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3648-1.

Dubovi, I., Dagan, E., Sader-Mazbar, O., Nasar, L., & Levy, S.T. (2018). Nursing Students Learning with Complexity-Based Computerized Models the Pharmacology of Diabetes Mellitus: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Nurse Education Today. 61:175-181.

Cohen-Castel O, Dagan E, Keinan-Boker L, Shadmi E (2018). Reliability and validity of the Hebrew version of the Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire for measuring patients' perceived continuity of care in oral anti-cancer therapy. European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl.). 27(6):e12913. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12594.

Cohen Castel O, Shadmi E, Keinan-Boker L, Granot T, Karkabi K, Dagan E. (2019). The association between patients' perceived continuity of care and beliefs about oral anticancer treatment. Supportive Care Cancer. 27 (9), 3545-3553. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-04668-6.

Dagan E, Dubovi I, Levy M, Zuckerman Levin N, Levy S. T. (2019) Adherence to diabetes care: knowledge of biochemical processes has a high impact on glycemic control among adolescents with type-1 diabetes. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 75 (11), 2701-2709. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14098

Mor Saban, Efrat Dagan, Anat Drach-Zahavy. (2019) The relationship between mindfulness, triage accuracy, and patient satisfaction in the emergency department: A moderation-mediation model. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 45 (6), 644-660. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2019.08.003.

Dubovi I, Levy ST, Levy M, Zuckerman Levin N., Dagan E. (2020) Glycemic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Are computerized simulations effective learning tools? Pediatric Diabetes. 21 (2), 328-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/pedi.12974

Mor Saban, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Efrat Dagan. (2021). The Effects of a Novel Mindfulness-based Intervention on Nurses' State Mindfulness and Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department Journal of Emergency Nursing. 47(3):412-425 https://doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2020.09.009.

Mor Saban, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Efrat Dagan. (2021). A Novel Reflective Practice Intervention Improves Quality of Care in the Emergency Department. International Emergency Nursing. May 56:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ienj.2021.100977.

Orit Cohen Castel, Efrat Dagan, Lital Keinan–Boker, Tal Granot, Khaled Karkabi, Efrat Shadmi. (2021). Patients’ perceived continuity of care and adherence to oral anticancer therapy: a mediation study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 36(6):1525-1532. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06704-w.

Tsvitman I, Cohen Castel Orit, Dagan E. (2021). Perceived patient-centered care is associated with reduced symptoms distress in cancer patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment. Supportive Care in Cancer. Apr14;1-9. doi: 10.1007/s00520-021-06200-1.

Dagan E, Amit Y, ^#Sokolov L, Litvak P, Barnoy S. (2021). Integrating genetic professional skills into nursing practice: Results from a large cohort of Israeli nurses. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Jun 20. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12686.

 

Chapters in Scientific Books

Dagan E and Gershoni-Baruch R (2010). Genetic disorders among Jews from Arab countries. In AS Teebi (Ed.), Genetic disorders among Arab Population (2nd ed.)  (pp. 677-705). New-York, NY: Springer-Verlag. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-05080-0_23.

Dagan E and Gershoni-Baruch R (2012). The Genetics of Pancreatic Cancer. In SK Srivastava (Ed.), Pancreatic cancer – clinical management (1st ed.) (pp. 1-14). Croatia, InTech.

Birenbaum-Carmeli D, #Dagan E, Modiano Gattegno S. (2015). “Worse comes to worst – I know I have a safety net” Fertility preservation in single young Jewish breast cancer patients in Israel. Emerging reproductive health technologies in the Middle East & North Africa. Vanderbilt University Press.