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25 Cancer
Pages 186-190

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From page 186...
... Robert Rutman of the University of Pennsylvania says, "The excess cancer risk facing the Black population is not only a major moral and ethical problem, it also is a costly financial one." Hispanics, too, are singled out for special attention, as are women who need to be brought into screening programs, especially mammography screening. Harold Freeman of the American Cancer Society is concerned that the United States, as a nation, is not attending to the poor, minorities, and others who are not part of the mainstream.
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From page 187...
... Jose Lopez of the San Antonio Tumor and Blood Clinic made similar observations about Hispanics. He cites figures from one study in New York on knowledge and use of breast cancer detection among Hispanics: fewer Hispanic women did breast selfexamination within the last year than non-Hispanic women; fewer Hispanic women have had a mammogram; and fewer have had a Pap smear.
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From page 188...
... For uterine cancer, the mortality rate among White women has declined 2.4 percent per year for the past five years, whereas for Black women, it has decreased by only 1.1 percent.~° f#377) Margaret Hargreaves, Osman Ahmed, and their coauthors from Meharry Medical College cite American Cancer Society figures indicating that in the last 30 years, cancer death rates for Blacks increased 40 percent, whereas the White rate increased only 10 percent; 30 years ago, Black and White rates were about the same.
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From page 189...
... Prepared by the Subcommittee on Cancer in the Economically Disadvantaged. June 1986 TESTIFIERS CITED IN CHAPTER 25 020 Bernstein, Robert; Texas Department of Health 026 Breslow, Lester; UCLA School of Public Health 177 Randolph, Linda; New York State Department of Health 235 Bruhn, John; University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 256 Mauer, Alvin and Arreola, Mona; University of Tennessee, Memphis 269 Ahmed, Osman; Diehard Medical College 321 Skeets, Michael; Oregon Department of Human Resources 336 Norman, Ann Deucy; University of Washington, School of Social Work 377 Glazner, Judith; Denver Department of Health and Hospitals 443 Freeman, Harold; State University of New York at Buffalo 452 Santee, Barbara and Alexander, Alpha; National Board of the YWCA of the United States Cancer 189
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From page 190...
... 484 Newell, Guy and LeMaistre, Charles; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital 488 Lopez, Jose; San Antonio Tumor and Blood Clinic 615 Hargreaves, Margaret; Meharry Medical College 708 Robinson, William; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center ,, 190 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course
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