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UCLA fact sheets recommend changes to help patients and survivors – particularly low-income women – who face serious obstacles to care More than 29,000 women in California will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. Many of them — especially low-income women, who suffer the worst survival rates — will face economic, emotional and structural obstacles to getting treatment and follow-up care.
March 19, 2018
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UCLA fact sheets recommend changes to help patients and survivors – particularly low-income women – who face serious obstacles to care More than 29,000 women in California will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. Many of them — especially low-income women, who suffer the worst survival rates — will face economic, emotional and structural obstacles to getting treatment and follow-up care.
March 19, 2018
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California State Senate will discuss barriers and possible solutions Jan. 12 In 2016, more than 26,700 California women were diagnosed with breast cancer, and an estimated 4,000 died from the disease. For women with breast cancer, the path from diagnosis to treatment to continued care is riddled with obstacles, according to a new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
January 12, 2017
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California State Senate will discuss barriers and possible solutions Jan. 12 In 2016, more than 26,700 California women were diagnosed with breast cancer, and an estimated 4,000 died from the disease. For women with breast cancer, the path from diagnosis to treatment to continued care is riddled with obstacles, according to a new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
January 12, 2017
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'Breaking the Barriers to Breast Cancer Care: Exploring Policy Options''
One in eight women will develop breast cancer. Yet from narrow provider networks to cultural and linguistic obstacles, serious barriers exist for women seeking breast cancer treatment in California.
At this January 12 legislative briefing in Sacramento, co-sponsored by the California Latino Legislative Caucus,
January 05, 2017
Press Releases
'Breaking the Barriers to Breast Cancer Care: Exploring Policy Options''
One in eight women will develop breast cancer. Yet from narrow provider networks to cultural and linguistic obstacles, serious barriers exist for women seeking breast cancer treatment in California.
At this January 12 legislative briefing in Sacramento, co-sponsored by the California Latino Legislative Caucus,
January 05, 2017
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Although 90 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer said they were aware they took a genomic test that identified their level of risk for a recurrence of the disease, 1 in 5 didn’t know the results of that analysis, according to a new fact sheet by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
May 28, 2015
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Although 90 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer said they were aware they took a genomic test that identified their level of risk for a recurrence of the disease, 1 in 5 didn’t know the results of that analysis, according to a new fact sheet by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
May 28, 2015
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UCLA-led study shows that economic factors may influence the adoption of new technologies Wealthier women who live in communities with the greatest income divide between rich and poor had better access to a new genetic test that can determine the most effective form of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Aetna.
April 06, 2015
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UCLA-led study shows that economic factors may influence the adoption of new technologies Wealthier women who live in communities with the greatest income divide between rich and poor had better access to a new genetic test that can determine the most effective form of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Aetna.
April 06, 2015