Interventional Program Educates, Identifies + Overcomes Barriers to Complete Screening Mammography

Description

The purpose of this study is to identify interventions that are designed to better serve women who are homeless, with a specific focus on increasing screening rates and decreasing late stage breast cancer diagnosis among this high-risk understudied community of women. As a result, the study team hopes to influence the broader homeless healthcare initiative

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The purpose of this study is to identify interventions that are designed to better serve women who are homeless, with a specific focus on increasing screening rates and decreasing late stage breast cancer diagnosis among this high-risk understudied community of women. As a result, the study team hopes to influence the broader homeless healthcare initiative

A Proposed Community-Based Interventional Program That Educates, Identifies And Overcomes Barriers to Complete Screening Mammography Among Homeless Women

Interventional Program Educates, Identifies + Overcomes Barriers to Complete Screening Mammography

Condition
Breast Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Cleveland

Cleveland Clinic, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Women under age 40 who present with high risk breast cancer related symptoms or a first degree relative with breast cancer
  • * Have not had mammogram in the last 12 months
  • * Resident at a homeless shelter or transitioning housing facility.

Ages Eligible for Study

40 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center,

Chirag Shah, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Cleveland Clinic, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2025-05