Focused interviews with Sudanese Americans: perceptions about diet, nutrition, and cancer.

Background: This study explored perceptions regarding diet, nutrition and cancer among Sudanese-Americans; and generated information for response options, components to questions, and actual questions for a pre-conceptualized diet, nutrition and cancer-related questionnaire to be used on this population.

Methods: In a descriptive, qualitative study, data were collected from four focus group discussions with Sudanese-Americans (N = 18).

Results: Most participants were fearful of cancer, associating it with death.