Breast cancer awareness and barriers to symptomatic presentation among women from different ethnic groups in East London.

Abstract

Interventions to promote early presentation of breast cancer for South Asian and black women should promote knowledge of symptoms and skills to detect changes, and tackle emotional barriers to symptomatic presentation and for white women tackle the idea that going to the doctor to discuss a breast symptom will waste the doctor's time.

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Subjects

• Adult
• Awareness
• Breast Neoplasms
• Ethnic Groups
• Female
• Great Britain
• Humans
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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Authors

• L J L Forbes
• L Atkins
• A Thurnham
• J Layburn
• F Haste
• A J Ramirez

Publication date

2011-11-09

Journal

Journal topics

• Neoplasms

Language

Eng.

Copyright

British journal of cancer

Promoting Early Presentation Group, Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London, South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK. lindsay.forbes [at] kcl.ac.uk

Release reference

Br J Cancer. 2011 Nov;105(10):1474-9

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