CANCER PREVENTION AND EARLY DETECTION STRATEGIES FOR REACHING UNDERSERVED URBAN, LOW-INCOME BLACK-WOMEN - BARRIERS AND OBJECTIVES

Authors
Citation
L. Lacey, CANCER PREVENTION AND EARLY DETECTION STRATEGIES FOR REACHING UNDERSERVED URBAN, LOW-INCOME BLACK-WOMEN - BARRIERS AND OBJECTIVES, Cancer, 72(3), 1993, pp. 1078-1083
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
CancerACNP
ISSN journal
0008543X
Volume
72
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Supplement
S
Pages
1078 - 1083
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-543X(1993)72:3<1078:CPAEDS>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
To achieve national health goals set for reduction of cancer by the ye ar 2000, populations with higher cancer mortality and lower survival m ust be reached with proven advances for use in cancer prevention and e arly detection. This article focuses on one segment of those populatio ns that continues to have a poor cancer experience: urban, low-income black women. Barriers for them to cancer prevention and early detectio n are identified and discussed from studies conducted in Chicago. Spec ifically tailored interventions that have been used to bring services to this population are described, and implications from the outcomes o f this work are discussed.