Why do Asian-American women have lower rates of breast conserving surgery: results of a survey regarding physician perceptions

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Mexican American women in a rural area and barriers to their ability to enact protective behaviors against breast cancer.

Mexican American women in rural areas have less chance of surviving breast cancer than women in other ethnic populations (Boughton, 2000; Herman, 1996). This research sought to determine why such women do or do not enact behaviors to help them protect themselves from breast cancer. The extended parallel process model (Witte, 1994) provided a guiding theoretical basis for understanding perceptio...

Racial disparities and trends in radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery for early-stage breast cancer in women, 1992 to 2002.

OBJECTIVES Clinical guidelines recommend that when breast-conserving surgery is provided as primary therapy for early-stage breast cancer, radiation therapy should follow. We do not know whether racial/ethnic disparities in this therapy exist and how disparities may have changed over time. DESIGN AND PATIENTS We studied 89,110 women who were diagnosed with incident early-stage (American Joint...

Evaluation of eligibility and utilization of breast conservation treatment in an Asian context.

BACKGROUND Breast conservation treatment (BCT) has long been recognised to provide survival outcomes equivalent to mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer. However, published reports of BCT rates in Asian communities are lower than those from Western countries. This study sought to investigate the eligibility and utilisation of BCT in a predominantly Asian population. MATERIALS AND METH...

Racial/ethnic disparities in knowledge about risks and benefits of breast cancer treatment: does it matter where you go?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between provider characteristics and treatment location and racial/ethnic minority patients' knowledge of breast cancer treatment risks and benefits. DATA SOURCES/DATA COLLECTION Survey responses and clinical data from breast cancer patients of Detroit and Los Angeles SEER registries were merged with surgeon survey responses (N=1,132 patients, 277 surgeon...