‘We are survivors too’: African-American youths' experiences of coping with parental breast cancer (original) (raw)

Abstract

Objective: To explore how African-American youth cope with the diagnosis and treatment of parental breast cancer, and to identify culturally sensitive ways to recruit and sustain participation of this vulnerable population in intervention programs.

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