Breast cancer prevention in community clinics: Will low-income Latina patients participate in clinical trials?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 611-618

  Mandelblatt, Jeanne ^a   Kaufman, Elizabeth ^a   Sheppard, Vanessa B ^a   Pomeroy, Jyl ^b   Kavanaugh, John ^c   Canar, Janet ^d   Pallandre, Laura ^a   Cullen, Jennifer ^a   Huerta, Elmer ^a,e  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arlington Free Clinic   (United States)

^c La Clinica del Pueblo   (United States)

^d Latin American Cancer Research Coalition   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Breast cancer; Latino; Prevention

Indexed keywords

RALOXIFENE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 17844372482     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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