Strategic recruitment of an ethnically diverse cohort of overweight survivors of breast cancer with lymphedema.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Black women are more likely to experience adverse effects from cancer treatment such as lymphedema. Thus, black women may particularly benefit from research regarding interventions to improve lymphedema. Herein, the authors report the challenges and strategies related to the recruitment of minority survivors of breast cancer and to the recruitment of survivors of breast cancer with lymphedema into the Women In Steady Exercise Research (WISER) Survivor Clinical Trial.

Methods

Subjects for this community-based trial were recruited from the Philadelphia area through active (mailings) and passive (printed materials and Web site) recruitment strategies. In addition, education sessions coordinated through partner hospitals in communities with a predominantly minority po

SUBMITTER: Sturgeon KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5743016 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature