Treatment Decision Making in African American Women Diagnosed with Advanced Breast Cancer

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Sims, Dauphne Annette
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	ii DEDICATION v TABLE OF CONTENTS vi LIST OF FIGURES x LIST OF TABLES xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xii CHAPTER PAGE I: THE PROBLEM 1 Purpose 4 Background and Significance 5 Phenomenon and Complexities of Decision Making 5 Illness and Decision Making 7 Treatment Decision Making 8 Advanced Stage Breast Cancer 10 Definition of Advanced Cancer 10 Patient-Physician Communication 12 Breast Cancer Disparities 13 Significance to Nursing Research 14 Conceptual Framework 15 Cultural Capital 15 Background and Use of a Cultural Capital Perspective 17 Cultural Capital and Decision Making in African American Women with Advanced Breast Cancer 18 Research Questions 19 Chapter Summary 20 II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 21 Health Disparities in Breast Cancer 21 Disparities in Tumor Size and Lymph Node Biopsy 22 Critique 24 Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment 25 Critique 29 Breast Cancer Disparities and Health Insurance 29
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