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Article: An innovative community-based intervention for African American women with breast cancer: the Witness Project[R].
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- Health and Social Work
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Overall, the incidence rates of breast cancer among women have continually increased since 1980 (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2005). Despite advances made in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer over the past several decades, there continues to be a major disparity in breast cancer morbidity and mortality between African American and white women. ACS estimated that 211,240 U.S. women would be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and 40,410 would die from the disease. African American women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white American women (119.9 per 100,000 compared with 141.7 per 100,000), but a higher mortality rate (35.4 per ...