The call for multilevel interventions to improve the quality of follow-up to abnormal cancer
screening has been out for a decade, but published work emphasizes individual …

Cancer fatalism is the perception that encountering cancer is a certain death sentence and
that sooner or later, the individual with cancer will die. This chapter provides a critical review …

Objective To evaluate the frequency with which migraine patients initiated behavioral
migraine treatment following a headache specialist recommendation and the predictors for …

Researchers have examined “cancer fatalism”(the belief that cancer is predetermined,
beyond individual control, and necessarily fatal) as a major barrier to breast cancer …

BACKGROUND: Inequalities in cancer screening are little studied in Asian societies. We
determined whether area and individual measures of socio-economic status (SES) affected …

Purpose In rural communities that experience high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD)
morbidity and mortality, family history education may enhance risk awareness and support …

Background Despite the availability of relatively simple and inexpensive screening tools,
minority women are more often diagnosed at a late stage of breast cancer, in part due to …

In this article, we report on a small qualitative scale study with immigrant Russian-speaking
Australian women, carers of dependent family members. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we …

Background: Mammography screening tends to reduce mortality rate through early
detection. One of the barriers to mammography screening is fear of negative appearance …

The study aims to define how imaging findings, patient demographics, patient–provider
interactions, and health care practices may affect a woman's decision to follow‐up in the …