Issues of distrust in the medical community were reported by several women and can be summed up by Carmen who stated, “We are very fearful of the medical community. We don’t trust the government.” Another example of distrust was evident in Iola, who had doubt about whether she had breast cancer in the first place. She believed that she had been secretly placed in a clinical trial for a drug that her doctor had prescribed without her legal consent and she had not been informed by her doctor. Iola stated