Navigating Latinas with breast screen abnormalities to diagnosis: The Six Cities Study

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1298-1305

  Ramirez, Amelie G ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^b   Penedo, Frank J ^c   Talavera, Gregory A ^d   Carrillo, J Emilio ^e   Fernandez, Maria E ^f   Holden, Alan E C ^a   Munoz, Edgar ^a   San Miguel, Sandra ^a   Gallion, Kip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

BI RADS; breast cancer; Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System; health disparities; Latinas; patient navigation

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LATINA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT NAVIGATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875382303     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27912     Document Type: Article

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