title: Determinants of cancer health disparities: barriers to cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many health disparities occur when beneficial medical interventions are not shared by all.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the barriers that cause the disparities.
  
  
  METHODS
  In terms of obtaining beneficial medical interventions, the individual with disparities is influenced by his/her community, healthcare provider and healthcare system. The determinants of cancer health disparities include cultural, socio-economic and environmental factors, and the effects of social injustice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These factors create inadequate information and knowledge about cancer, risk-promoting behaviors, inadequate conditions for seeking medical procedures, diminished access to and use of healthcare and inadequate healthcare services. The use of patient navigators may serve to address many of these factors.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, 9000 Rockville Pike, 6116 Executive Blvd, Room 602, Bethesda, MD 20892-8341, USA +1 301 496 8589 ; kc10d@nih.gov.
authors.forename: Kenneth C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Sanya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Springfield