Breast Cancer

Screening underutilized by immigrant women in Canada

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 7th, 2004

Lack of information, modesty, and a false sense of security may prevent women from immigrant backgrounds from having regular clinical breast examinations, according to a study by University of Toronto researchers and the University Health Network (UHN).

A Toronto study of South Asian immigrant women, published recently in the Journal of Immigrant Health, showed that although 83% of the women surveyed had heard of clinical breast examination (CBE), only 38.5% had ever had the exam - a concern since breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in North America.

"Early detection of breast cancer increases the chance of...

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