Cancer

Social support post-cancer lacking among minority women

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 19th, 2010

MIAMI - Nonwhite women reported receiving less social support than white women after cancer treatment, according to data presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2010.

"This is an important finding when designing and promoting social support resources for female cancer survivors to better include cancer survivors of color," said study author Jennifer M. Jabson, M.P.H., Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of community health sciences at Boston University. "This might be useful when interventionists and community support groups are conducting outreach as they may want to focus special...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-10-19)

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