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  Structure and meaning in models of breast and cervical cancer risk factors: A comparison of perceptions among Latinas, Anglo women, and physicians

  Reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Salvadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California.
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  "You are a number, not a human being": Israeli breast cancer patients' experiences with the medical establishment

  Argues that the women used language as a means of resisting the medical culture's pattern of treating patients as "nonhumans"
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  Complementary and alternative medicine use among women with breast cancer

  Results from a qualitative prospective cohort study challenge previous stereotypes by indicating that CAM usage does not increase dramatically with the initial diagnosis of cancer.
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  Negotiating cultural consensus in a breast cancer self-help group

  Describes a shared model of the breast cancer experience negotiated by the members of a spontaneously organized breast cancer self-help group in eastern North Carolina.