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Cancer Prevention in the 21st Century: The Preventorium Concept
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 4, November 2012
- pp. 1698-1703
- 10.1353/hpu.2012.0194
- Article
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The Cancer Preventorium model described here has proven successful in targeting the Hispanic population of a large metropolitan area in the United States to change the point of contact within the health care system from patients with advanced conditions seeking treatment to those screened while presumably healthy to detect disease early.