Breast Cancer (Diagnosis)

Delayed Diagnosis in African-American Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 15th, 1998

Socioeconomic factors combined with cultural beliefs and attitudes play a role in the delayed diagnosis of breast cancer in African-American women, according to an article in the June 10, 1998, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 1998;279:1801-1808).

Donald R. Lannin, MD, of the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and colleagues studied the influences of socioeconomic and cultural factors on racial differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis in 540 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer. The patients were from two rural counties in eastern North Carolina.

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