ABSTRACT
This chapter describes characteristics of the companies, company policies, and characteristics of the employer-respondents themselves. It presents an analysis of the relationships between the dependent variables and selected independent and assesses more specifically the utility and validity of particular components of the theoretical model. Many respondents had experience with women with breast cancer both at work and among friends and family members. Three-fourths knew someone personally who had had breast cancer, and almost half had had employees leave work for treatment of this disease. While 88 percent knew, correctly, that contact with someone who has cancer cannot cause the disease, 75 percent thought, incorrectly, that a blow to the breast could cause breast cancer. Insurance companies are also prime targets for remedial education and/or legislation. They set the rates which may influence employers to screen cancer patients differently on the basis of an expected increase in absenteeism or a greater need for medical treatment.
