co ra e minoritie to
p rticip te in bre t cancer
screening metho mu t be
Inte ified.
"Hi torlcally, en there
ve been n lion
ong' omen under SO,
tbe mortality rate in Blacks is
9.S per 100,000, compared to
6.1 in bite.
S on' article, "Racial
Difference in the Earl y
Detection of Bre t C ncer in
etropolitan Detroit, 1978 to
1987," ppeared in a recent
edition of tbe publication
"Cancer."
Co- tbors of the report
ere Enid R. Satari no of the
icbi an Cancer
Foundation' Divi ion of
Epidemiology;. Dr. illiam
A. S t riano of tbe Univer-
ity of California-Berkeley
Scbool of Public He Ub; and
Dr. Barbara A. Tbreatt of the
Comprehen ive Bre t Cen­
ter, Ann Arbor, Mich.
ite
?
cy: Since omen often
thin in term of clo ene
nd upport, they struggle to
pre erve inlim cy. en, con­
cerned bout tatus, focu on
t bli hing independence.
When one man's old high
chool chum c IIcd to ay
'd b in to n, the m n in­
vited him to t y for thc
cc end, not telling hi wife
until th t evening.
The ire as up et th t
hc 'u m, de pi n ithout con-
ultin her beforehand. "Why
don't you tell your friend you
h v to che c ith your
ife?" h aid.
Her hu b nd replied: "I
can't y I have to a my
ife for permi ion." To him,
chcc in with hi wife me nt
he could not ct freely, That
made him feel Ii e a child or
underlin . But the ife Ii c
to hec ith her hu b nd to
ho h r lif is ent ined
ith hi .
3,
di
verb lize feelings with rei -
tive and friend to how in­
volvement and c ring. To
most men, tal i for gaining
inform tion.
Yet many men c n hold
center tage ociall y, telling
joke nd storie , They use
conver ation to clai allcn-'
tion and to entertain. Women
wind up hurt that thcir hus­
bands tell rei tive nd
tranger things they have
not told them,
5. Orders vs. propos Is:
Women often begi n conver a­
tion with" Let'·11 _ "Let'
clean up before lunch,"
"Let' park over there," To
them, Le is " is not a
demand, it' a u ge (ion that
gets other to do what they
ant by winning grcement
fir t. Somc men feel manipu­
I ted by that appro ch nd
re cnt it.
6, C
men
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