Resources

6 Resources for

breast cancer and gender and diversity

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

BNET Resources

Effects of Chronic Widespread Pain on the Health Status and Quality of Life of Women After Breast Cancer Surgery: Most research and treatment of post-breast cancer chronic pain has focused on local or regional pain problems in the operated area. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast the pain characteristics, symptom impact, health status, and quality of life of post-breast cancer surgery women with regional chronic...; Tags: Pain, Women, Breast Cancer, Health Care, Gender And Diversity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-04-28
Improving Quality of Care for Californians With Breast Cancer: Breast cancer threatens the lives of many women in California and across the country. One in eight women in California will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. According to the American Cancer Society, some 21,325 new cases excluding in situ cancers of female breast cancer will be diagnosed in California...; Tags: Women, Breast Cancer, California HealthCare Foundation, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources; White papers 2002-07-01
Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence From Married Women With Breast Cancer: This paper examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, it develops a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is...; Tags: Health Insurance, Women, Breast Cancer, Health Care, Gender And Diversity, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance; White papers 2004-04-01
Breast Cancer: Breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring among women and accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in women. In the year 2000, invasive breast cancer was diagnosed in an estimated 182,800 women in the United States. Last year, 40,800 women died with breast cancer. More importantly, in situ...; Tags: Women, Breast Cancer, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources; White papers
On the Efficacy of Screening for Breast Cancer: 'Mammography' (screening for breast cancer by x-ray examination) came to be widely?although not universally?accepted in the 1980s, when a number of clinical trials demonstrated a substantial reduction in risk. Early detection, before the disease spread, permitted therapy that was simultaneously less invasive and more effective. Questions that remained were largely...; Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Women, Efficacy, Breast Cancer, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources; White papers 2004-03-24