Closing the Gap: Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention Handbook

Breaking Barriers to Breast Health

This awareness and prevention handbook is designed to educate and empower people and communities by increasing awareness of breast health and the importance of prevention and early detection of possible breast cancer. It addresses the barriers marginalized communities often face, including social and environmental factors that can make it harder for people to live their healthiest lives. 

These factors — often called social determinants of health — include access to healthy food, safe places to play and be active, quality health care, education, transportation, and housing. They further contribute to delayed screening, delayed detection, later-stage diagnosis, and preventable deaths.