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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3022.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| In this session, the learner will hear about various cancer screening programs and potential barriers to screening for different ethnic groups. The relationship between obesity and cancer screening will also be discussed. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Discuss possible strategies for cancer prevention and screening among API in general and Asian Indians in particular 2. To identify socio-cultural barriers for colorectal cancer screening among Hispanics/Latinos in the US 3. Understand the relationship between obesity and cervical cancer screening 4. Understand the relationship between obesity and colon cancer screening practices 5. Describe and discuss health disparity in cancer screening recommendations | |||
| Resa M. Jones, MPH, PhD | |||
| Mammogram and Pap smear Screening Behaviors among Asian Indian Women Ranjita Misra, PhD, CHES | |||
| Colorectal Cancer Screening Surveillance among Hispanics in the US: Current National Data Is Likely an Over-Estimate Marielos L. Vega, BSN, RN, Stanley H. Weiss, MD, Ping-Hsin Chen, PhD, Jeanne Ferrante, MD, Ana Natale-Pereira, MD, Sue Rovi, PhD, Mark S. Johnson, MD, MPH | |||
| Obesity and Cervical Cancer Screening in Caucasian and African-American Women Hongyu Wu, Kangmin Zhu, Robert J. Lipnick, Tzu-Cheg Kao, PhD, Mona Shah, MPH, John Potter | |||
| What explains unequal treatment in physician recommendation of endoscopic screening for colorectal cancer? Nasar U. Ahmed, PhD, MPS, Ashar Ata, MBBS, MPH, Tabassum Z. Insaf, MBBS, MPH, Steven C. Stain, MD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | Women's Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA