Racial/Ethnic disparities in knowledge about one's breast cancer characteristics

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 724-732

  Freedman, Rachel A ^a   Kouri, Elena M ^b   West, Dee W ^c   Keating, Nancy L ^b,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disparities; Education; Health literacy; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER GRADING; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MINORITY GROUP; MINORITY HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MINORITY HEALTH; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84923489089     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28977     Document Type: Article

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