title: Fatalism revisited.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the concept of fatalism among African Americans by discussing how religiosity/spirituality may guide them in seeking cancer care in a positive rather than a fatalistic way.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nursing, social science, and medical journals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using culturally targeted faith-based interventions to educate African Americans about cancer can serve as a strategy to increase cancer knowledge, decrease cancer fatalism, and ultimately increase cancer screening and treatment resulting in cancer activism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses should advocate for faith-based initiatives to help address fatalism in the African American community, and to assist them in developing a more proactive role in cancer screening, treatment, and survivorship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC 28301, USA. pmorgan@uncfsu.edu
authors.forename: Phyllis D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Indira D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Tyler
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fogel
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D029181:Spirituality; D001741:Black or African American