Evidence-Based Interventions for Reducing Breast Cancer Disparities: What Works and Where the Gaps Are?

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States and most countries around the world. There are many breast cancer risk factors that are amenable to intervention. This includes long-established risk factors (physical activity, obesity, alcohol consumption, breastfeeding), as well as emerging risk factors (tobacco smoke in early life, environmental chemicals). To inform future prevention, we inventoried existing evidence-based cancer control programs (EBCCP) in the National Cancer Institute’s online repository. We found that there are no existing EBCCPs for alcohol, breastfeeding, or environmental chemicals. While there are EBCCPs for physical activity, obesity, and early life tobacco control, only three programs were identified as high-quality,

SUBMITTER: Kehm R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9455068 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature