Background Patient navigation (PN) is a patient-centered health-care service delivery model
that assists individuals, particularly the medically underserved, in overcoming barriers (eg …

Avoidable differences in the care and outcomes of patients with cancer (ie, cancer care
disparities) emerge or worsen with discoveries of new, more effective approaches to cancer …

BACKGROUND Patient navigation may reduce cancer disparities associated with
socioeconomic status (SES) and household factors. This study examined whether these …

Purpose: Less than 10% of patients enrolled in clinical trials are minorities. The patient
navigation model has been used to improve access to medical care but has not been …

General frameworks of the cancer screening process are available, but none directly
compare the process in detail across different organ sites. This limits the ability of medical …

Background Substance use during the perinatal period (ie, pregnancy through the first year
postpartum) can pose significant maternal and infant health risks. However, access to …

BACKGROUND Patient navigation was developed to address barriers to timely care and
reduce cancer disparities. The current study explored navigation and racial and ethnic …

Purpose There is a breast cancer mortality gap adversely affecting Black women in the
United States. This study assessed the relationship between number of days between …

Background Black women are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of breast cancer
in part due to barriers to timely screening mammography, resulting in poorer mortality and …

Background Recognition of potential explanations for nonadherence or treatment delays is
crucial to improving survival, particularly among African American women, for whom there is …