Barriers to seeking cancer information among Spanish-speaking cancer survivors.

Background: Hispanics face barriers in seeking cancer information from sources such as the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service. Their cancer screening rates are lower than those for whites.

Methods: Three focus groups were conducted with 40 Spanish-speaking cancer survivors.

Information-seeking behavior of minority breast cancer patients: an exploratory study.

Few population-based studies have been conducted with minority breast cancer patients in the United States to understand their information-seeking behaviors. We examined the resources minority breast cancer patients used and the extent to which the Internet was being utilized by Hispanic and African American breast cancer patients. A random sample of 388 Hispanic and African American breast cancer female patients was obtained from the Sacramento Cancer Surveillance Program in California.