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

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.