Following Intervention To Teach Self-Screening Techniques, Women 10 Times More Likely
 

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. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, this study is one of the first to show intervention programs can be effective in increasing breast self-exams.

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