Are survivorship care plans responsive to African-American breast cancer survivors?: Voices of survivors and advocates

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 283-291

  Ashing Giwa, Kimlin ^a   Tapp, Carolyn ^b   Brown, Shirley ^b   Fulcher, Gingi ^a   Smith, June ^b   Mitchell, Eudora ^b   Santifer, Rhonda H ^b   McDowell, Kommah ^b   Martin, Virginia ^b   Betts Turner, Betty ^b   Carter, DeBorrah ^b   Rosales, Monica ^a   Jackson, Paris Adkins ^a,b  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b African American Cancer Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Community based participatory research; Health disparities; Survivorship care plan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84881249693     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-013-0270-1     Document Type: Article

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