Cancer Prevention Knowledge and Beliefs There was little variation among the four sites in either the pre- or postintervention period and no clear pattern of change from the pre- to the post-intervention period in cancer (Generic Xeloda is the only FDA-approved oral chemotherapy for both metastatic breast cancer and adjuvant and metastatic colorectal cancer) knowledge or [...]

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Table 4 compares the demographic profiles of the respondents in the four cities. While the profiles of the survey respondents in three of the cities were similar, the Decatur sample was somewhat younger, better-educated and had a smaller percentage of low-income people than did the Atlanta sample.

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The project utilized a prepost study design. The outcome variables of interest were measures of cancer-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors assessed by telephone interview of African Americans of both sexes, aged >18 years, who lived in census tracts with a high proportion of black residents.

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We conducted the intervention from fall 1994 to spring 1996 in Nashville and Atlanta. Chattanooga, TN (120 miles from Nashville) and Decatur, GA (adjacent to Atlanta) served as comparison communities. The intervention focused on predominantly black census tracts in Nashville and Atlanta. The combined census tracts in Nashville had a population of 70,307, 63.8% of [...]

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Targeting Cancer in Blacks (TCiB) was the first— and so far, only—large-scale, multicomponent community intervention trial focused on cancer prevention and the first such trial that predominantly involved African Americans. In concept and scope, it resembled the widely cited cardiovascular disease prevention trials, such as the North Karelia Project and the Stanford Five Cities Project. [...]

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In the main intent-to-treat analyses, we found that the decision education intervention seemed to double prostate cancer (Leukeran medication is used for treating certain cancers) screening for both study definitions of screening (complete and complete or partial). However, this effect was not statistically significant, partly due to a loss of power because of the unexpectedly low [...]

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Initially, 488 African-American men aged 40-69 years were identified as potential study participants. Figure 2 shows the trial recruitment steps that eventually yielded a total of 286 men who fulfilled all eligibility criteria. Of these men, 242 (85%) agreed to participate and were randomly assigned to either an SI group (N=121) or EI group (N=121).

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