The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Helping Cancer Survivors to Live with Joy
4080.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Helping Cancer Survivors to Live with Joy
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: Assess the personal complexities that decision-making for cancer treatment entails; Construct a participatory action research strategy that provides the means for survivors to voice their needs to influential people in their communities; Identify where within a survivorship framework lie opportunities to address the needs of survivors; Articulate initial challenges faced in implementing a program of California’s size and complexity.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Bella D. August, CSW
8:30 AMSurviving Angels Inspirational Images Project: African American breast cancer survivors in eastern North Carolina identify their needs
Ellen D Smolker, MPH, Eugenia Eng, DrPH, Bernice McElrath, BA, Naomi Robinson, BA
8:45 AMTreatment of early stage breast cancer: Women's narratives and the influence of context
Alice B. Fox, DrPH
9:00 AMReasons women discontinue free follow-up care for preinvasive cervical cancer
Ann L Coker, PhD, Sharon M Bond, CNM, MSN, Heather M. Brandt, MSPH, CHES
9:15 AMCultural Themes in Narratives of Breast Cancer Support Groups
Jeannine Coreil, PhD, Jaime Wilke, MPH, Jaime Wilke, MPH
9:30 AMCalifornia's Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program - The First Seven Months
Alison Marie Breen, BHA, Miyoko Sawamura, Kathleen Mintert, LCSW, Jacquolyn Duerr, MPH, Gene Hiehle, MA
Organized by:Women's Caucus
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA