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

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

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.

Objective

We examined between-race differences in the extent to which having dense breasts was associated with women's related BD cognition and emotion, and with health care providers' communication about BD.

Methods

We received surveys between May and October of 2015 assessing health care provider (HCP) communication about BD, BD-related knowledge, BD-related anxiety and BC worry from 182 African American (AA) and 113 European American (EA) women in the state of Michigan for whom we had radiologists' assessments of

SUBMITTER: Manning M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816018 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature