4409.0 Invited Session: Detection of Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancers in Communities

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
This joint session by the Cancer Forum and Medical Care Section reviews screening experiences for cancer of the breast, cervix, and colon in three locations in the US and Taiwan. Influences of local health care delivery and insurance plans are shown. Traits such as obesity can interfere with screening in multiple ways.
Session Objectives: Describe screening efforts for three frequent kinds of cancer Discuss how local health care delivery and insurance affect detection Explain how obesity influences screening
Organizer:
Jennifer Vidrine, PhD
Moderator:
Daisy DeWeese-Gatt, MPH

4:30pm
Relating local health care delivery system characteristics to late-stage breast cancer risk and mortality in women in Georgia
Talar Markossian, PhD and Robert Hines, PhD
4:50pm
Obesity and cervical cancer screening among women in Taiwan
Long-Sheng Chen and Yu-Chia Chang
     
5:10pm
Reference-dependent decision-making in colorectal cancer screening: Evidence from HINTS
Brendan Walsh, BA MA MPhil, Stephen O'Neill, BA MA and Ciaran O'Neill, PhD
     
5:30pm
Influence of insurance status on patterns of care-seeking among colorectal cancer patients
Maria Thomson, PhD and Laura Siminoff, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Cancer Forum

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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