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Many cancer prevention control outreach efforts are redefining "special populations" in a way that expands outreach efforts and tailors messages to reach previously overlooked or newly emerging demographic groups.
One such community partnership effort, led by Detroit's Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, involves an outreach program to bring breast cancer early detection and treatment information to that city's Arab community -- the world's largest outside of France and the Middle East.
"There is often very little available information about these kinds of communities and their health needs," said William Stengle, Cancer Control Efforts Reach Out to "Culturally Isolated" Groups