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Cancer Screening
Language barriers hinder access to cancer screening tests
September 29th, 2005
Language barriers may hinder women from receiving adequate access to cancer screening tests. "The relationship between ability to speak English and receipt of Papanicolaou tests, clinical breast examinations, and mammography in a multiethnic group of women in the United States" was examined by researchers. E. A. Jacobs and colleagues wrote, "We used longitudinal data from the Study of Women Across the Nation to examine receipt of breast and cervical cancer screening among Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, and White women who reported reading and speaking (1) only a language other than English, (2) another language more fluently than English, or (3) only...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-29)
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