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Breast Cancer Screening Intervention Programs

Examples of Group education interventions, which has insufficient evidence according to the Guide to Community Preventive Services
Program Title & Description
(4 programs listed)
Program Focus Population Focus
1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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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