ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BREAST CANCER Amos, C.I., Goldstein, A

Data drawn from the Cancer and Steroid Hormone study were analyzed to investigate familial patterns and breast cancer. Familial aggregation was found to be consistent with Mendelian recessive transmission of a single major gene. Methodological considerations in the examination for familial patterns were discussed and recommendations for the best methods were formulated.

Ansell, D., Whitman, S., Lipton, R. & Cooper, R. (1993). Race, income and survival from breast cancer at two public hospitals. Cancer, 72(10), 2974-2978.

Hospital Cancer Registry data on 887 black females and 265 white females with breast cancer were analyzed using Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier techniques. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of age, race, stage, treatment, and income status on survival rates. The strongest predictor of racial differences were differences in income status. It was concluded that income differences may exert a strong effect in public hospitals than in non-public hospitals.

Blaszyk, H., Vaughn, C.B., Hartmann, A., McGovern, R.M., Schroeder, J.J., Cunningham, J., Schaid, D., Sommer, S.S. & Kovach, J.S. (1994). Novel pattern of p53 gene mutations in an American black cohort with high mortality form breast cancer. Lancet, 343(8907), 1195-1197.

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. Roberson, N.L. (1994). Breast cancer screening in older black women. Cancer, 74(7, Suppl.) 2034-2041. Data collected from a community-based intervention to improve breast cancer screening was used to evaluate program efficacy for older black women (N=271). Screening participation for sample subjects was observed to be significantly higher when screening was offered directly in their neighborhoods than when it was offered at a local hospital. Structural and functional delivery system barriers were cited as responsible for findings. Skinner, C.S., Strecher, V.J. & Hospers, H. (1994). Physicians recommendations for mammography: Do tailored messages make a difference? American Journal of Public Health, 84(1), 12-13. Should letters mailed to patients to remind them of their need for mammogram screening be specifically tailored to the patient or will a standard reminder do? This study found that women receiving tailored messages were more likely to remember the recommendation and to have actually read the letter than were women receiving standard messages. However, this finding held true for only two groups of women: (1) women earning under $26,000 dollars per year; and (2) black women. Thus, the tailoring of reminders as
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