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Breast Cancer Screening Intervention Programs

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Program Title & Description
(13 programs listed)
Program Focus Population Focus
1. Title: Breast Cancer Screening Among Non-adherent Women
Purpose: Designed to address barriers to mammography screening and to identify strategies for motivating women to have regular mammograms.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2000
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA63782)
Intervention Category: One-on-one education interventions
Motivation Un- and/or Underscreened Individuals

2. Title: Empowering Physicians to Improve Breast Cancer Screening (EPICS)
Purpose: Physician-based educational curriculum designed to increase physicians' efforts to encourage women to receive regular mammograms.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2000
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA601305)
Intervention Category: Multicomponent interventions using media, education, and enhanced access
Awareness building Clinicians

3. Title: Friend to Friend
Purpose: Community-based intervention designed to increase mammography utilization among low-income women residing in public housing.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 1998
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA052994)
Intervention Category: Group education interventions
Awareness building Medically Underserved

4. Title: Increasing Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Filipino American Women
Purpose: Designed to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among Filipino women.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2003
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA74576)
Intervention Category: Group education interventions
Awareness building Medically Underserved

5. Title: Increasing Mammography Among Long-term Noncompliant Medicare Beneficiaries
Purpose: Designed to increase breast cancer screening by encouraging Medicare beneficiaries to obtain a mammogram.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2003
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA62246)
Intervention Category: Small media interventions
Awareness building and Behavior Modification Medicare Beneficiaries

6. Title: Maximizing Mammography Participation
Purpose: Designed to increase breast cancer screening by encouraging women to schedule and keep mammography appointments.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2000
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA63188)
Intervention Category: Client reminder interventions
Motivation Un- and/or Underscreened Individuals

7. Title: Prevention Care Management
Purpose: Designed to help increase cancer screening among underserved women.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2006
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA87776 )
Intervention Category: Client reminder interventions
Awareness building and Behavior Modification Medically Underserved

8. Title: Reducing Barriers to the Use of Breast Cancer Screening
Purpose: The physician intervention aims to increase the breast cancer screening practices of community-based physicians.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2001
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA60129)
Intervention Category: One-on-one education interventions and Interventions to reduce structural barriers
Awareness building Clinicians

9. Title: Targeted Mailing: Increasing Mammogram Screening Among the Elderly
Purpose: Designed to increase awareness about low-cost mammography screening options including the Medicare benefit for diverse racial/ethnic groups of elderly women.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2001
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA45003)
Intervention Category: Interventions to reduce out of pocket costs
Awareness building Medicare Beneficiaries

10. Title: The Forsyth County Cancer Screening Project (FoCaS)
Purpose: Designed to improve the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors regarding breast and cervical screening among low-income, predominately African-American, women age 40 and older.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 1999
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA57016)
Intervention Category: Multicomponent interventions using media, education, and enhanced access
Awareness building Medically Underserved

11. Title: The Witness Project
Purpose: Community-based program designed to increase breast cancer screening and promote the practice of mammography among underserved African American women.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 1999
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA66800)
Intervention Category: Group education interventions
Awareness building and Behavior Modification Medically Underserved

12. Title: Using Direct Mail to Increase Screening Mammography
Purpose: Designed to help increase breast cancer screening among low-income, underinsured women.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2005
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA78514 )
Intervention Category: Small media interventions
Awareness building and Behavior Modification Medically Underserved

13. Title: Woman to Woman
Purpose: Designed to increase breast cancer and cervical cancer screening in the worksite setting.
Outcomes Evaluation Published: 2001
Original Grant Funded By: 
NCI   (Grant number: CA66038)
Intervention Category: Group education interventions
Awareness building and Behavior Modification Un- and/or Underscreened Individuals


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