BOX 7.4 Current Extramural Health Services Research Projects on Breast Cancer Supported by NCI
Prevention and Screening:
- Breast and cervical screening--older, low-income, rural women
- Increasing compliance with mammography guidelines
- Reducing barriers to the use of breast cancer screening
- Empowering physicians to improve breast cancer screening
- Increasing breast screening among rural minority women
- Improving breast and cervical cancer screening
- Maximizing mammography participation--a randomized trial
- Increasing breast screening among nonadherent women
- Promoting mammography screening in North Dakota
- Barriers to abnormal mammogram follow-up
- Mammography referral in primary care
- Breast cancer education through organized labor
- Mammographic practice and performance in the population
- Interventions for breast cancer screening behaviors
- Pilot for a community mammography and tumor registry
- Breast cancer surveillance (four projects)
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of breast cancer control for African Americans
- Case-control study of mammography
- Evaluating mammography claims data
- Public health study of mammogram interpretation
- Population-based approach to increase mammography use
- Follow-up evaluation of breast screening program project
- Breast and cervical cancer screening among Filipina women
Treatment:
- Data sources and patterns of care for breast cancer
- Multilevel compliance model of breast treatments
- Breast cancer patterns of care and morbidity
- Home-based moderate exercise for breast cancer patients
- Hierarchical modeling for assessing breast cancer care
- Breast cancer treatment protocols for Hawaii minorities
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Intervention Study
- Adjustment to breast cancer
- Patient barriers to breast cancer clinical trials
- Breast conserving surgery for the elderly
- Home care training for younger breast cancer patients
- Managing uncertainty--self-help in breast cancer
- Promoting self-help--underserved women with breast cancer
- Breast cancer in young women--population-based approach
SOURCES: Brenda Edwards, Associate Director, CSRP, DCCPS, National Cancer Institute, personal communication to Maria Hewitt, November 1998; http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa; Martin Brown, Head, Health Services and Economics Section, Applied Research Branch, CSRP, DCCPS, NCI, personal communication to Maria Hewitt, December 1998; HSRProj, 1998.
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