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Title: An Innovative Community-Based Intervention for African American Women with Breast Cancer: The Witness Project[R].
Author : Health and Social Work
Release Date : January 01, 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 209 KB

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Overall, the incidence rates of breast cancer among women have continually increased since 1980 (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2005). Despite advances made in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer over the past several decades, there continues to be a major disparity in breast cancer morbidity and mortality between African American and white women. ACS estimated that 211,240 U.S. women would be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and 40,410 would die from the disease. African American women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white American women (119.9 per 100,000 compared with 141.7 per 100,000), but a higher mortality rate (35.4 per 100,000 compared with 26.4 per 100,000) (ACS). There are a variety of reasons postulated to explain the lower incidence yet higher mortality rate of breast cancer in African American women, including less access to health care, lack of health insurance, lower socioeconomic status, communication barriers, and perceptions among this population that cancer is fatal (Paskett et al., 2004; Schwartz, Crossley-May, Vigneau, Brown, & Banerjee, 2003; Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2003). BREAST CANCER OUTREACH TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: THE WITNESS PROJECT[R]