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African-American women have the highest breast cancer death rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the US. Reasons for these disparities are multi-factorial, but include lower mammogram utilization among this population. Cultural attitudes and beliefs, such as fear and fatalism, have not been fully explored as potential barriers to mammography among African-American women.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. mpeek@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
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