Impacting cultural attitudes in African-American women to decrease breast cancer mortality

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 418-423

  Lannin, Donald R ^a   Mathews, Holly F ^b   Mitchell, Jim ^b   Swanson, Melvin S ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Cultural attitudes; Race; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL CARE; NEGRO; PALPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0036847549     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(02)01009-7     Document Type: Article

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