Influences of race and breast density on related cognitive and emotion outcomes before mandated breast density notification

Mark Manning, Terrance L. Albrecht, Zeynep Yilmaz-Saab, Julie Shultz and Kristen Purrington

Social Science & Medicine, 2016, vol. 169, issue C, 171-179

Abstract: Many states have adopted laws mandating breast density (BD) notification for applicable women; however, very little is known about what women knew or felt about BD and related breast cancer (BC) risk before implementation of BD notification laws.

Keywords: Michigan, USA; Breast density; Racial difference; Cognition; Emotion; Anxiety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.037

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