Mammography capacity and appointment wait times: barriers to breast cancer screening
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Use of screening tests, diagnosis wait times, and wait-related satisfaction in breast and prostate cancer.
BACKGROUND Understanding factors relating to the perception of wait time by patients is key to improving the patient experience. METHODS We surveyed 122 breast and 90 prostate cancer patients presenting at clinics or listed on the cancer registry in Newfoundland and Labrador and reviewed their charts. We compared the wait time (first visit to diagnosis) and the wait-related satisfaction for b...
متن کاملMammography and breast cancer screening.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the detection rate of mammography in breast cancer and the attendance rate in response to the call for screening mammography in females before the development of symptoms. One-thousand four-hundred and thirty-eight women over 35 years of age who had no complaint and had normal breast examinations were called for mammography. Out of the 10,000 women u...
متن کاملBreast Cancer and Screening
سرطان پستان یکی از شایع ترین بیماریهای بدخیم و اولین علت مرگ و میر زنان بوده و تقریبا یک سوم تمام سرطانهای زنان را تشکیل می دهد.
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Causes & Control
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0957-5243,1573-7225
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9853-1