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Breast Cancer Screening
Investigators at Meharry Medical College, Medical College release new data on breast cancer screening
August 7th, 2008
"Recruiting underserved women in breast cancer research studies remains a significant challenge. We present our experience attempting to locate and recruit minority and medically underserved women identified in a Nashville, Tennessee public hospital for a mammography follow-up study," researchers in the United States report. "The study design was a retrospective hospital-based case-control study. We identified 227 women (88 African-American, 65 Caucasian, 36 other minority, 38 race undocumented in the medical record) who had undergone screening mammography and received an abnormal result during 2003-2004. Of the 227 women identified, 159 women were successfully located...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-07)
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