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Black women still hardest hit by fatal breast cancer.
2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breast cancer still is disproportionately deadly among black women, and a recent study shines some light onto reasons why that population may be less likely to have regular screenings for the disease.
Researchers interviewed 435 black women age 40 or older and scored them on such sociocultural measures as racial pride, spirituality, and "present time orientation."
Those who had present time orientation, or were more likely to think of daily concerns rather than focus on the future, were least likely to have regular mammograms. But poverty was not associated with barriers to mammography, likely because low-income women are increasingly aware of programs that pay for cancer screenings.
Those with higher racial pride scores were more likely to both have ...
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