Women 10 times more likely to do breast self-exams correctly with intervention, KP study finds
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 00:42
in Health & Medicine
April 30, 2009 (Portland, Ore.) A brief intervention program - consisting of one counseling session and two follow-up phone calls - boosted by tenfold the number of women correctly performing breast self- exams. These are the findings of a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
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