The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between persistence with mammography screening and stage at breast cancer diagnosis in elderly Appalachia-West Virginia women diagnosed with first incident breast cancer. The study utilized West Virginia Cancer Registry-Medicare linked database to identify women age 70 and above diagnosed with first incident breast cancer in 2007. Persi...

In Europe, as in many other regions of the world, breast cancer is a major cause of suffering and death. Early detection of breast cancer by systematic mammography screening can find lesions for which treatment is more effective and generally more favourable for quality of life. Comprehensive quality assurance guidelines for breast cancer screening based on mammography have been developed in th...

Breast cancer is by far the most common female cancer (21.6/100,000) and one of the primary causes of death (5.7/100,000) among Chinese women, with an estimated 169,452 new cases and 44,908 deaths in 2008 1. The total annual number of new cases in regions with limited health resources continues to increase 1,2. The causes of breast cancer remain unclear. Early detection is believed to be the be...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to describe the pattern of screening utilization and its consequences in terms of tumor size and time of tumor appearance of invasive breast carcinoma among a population of women who were examined at a large service screening/diagnostic program over the last decade. METHODS Utilization of mammography was assessed from a population of 59,899 women who...

background : the aim of this study was to describe the coverage for cervical cancer screening among the visitors of a food exhibition in brussels, belgium and to describe the factors that affect their participation in the screening programs. methods : the participants aged between 25 and 64 years were recruited during a food exhibition at the brussels exhibition centre from 6 until 21 october 2...

No previous analysis has investigated the determinants of screening uptake for breast and cervical cancer screening for possible spillover effects from one type of screening examination to the other type of screening examination with a dynamic bivariate panel probit model. For our analysis, we used a dynamic random effects bivariate panel probit model with initial conditions (Wooldridge-type es...

INTRODUCTION: Breast cancer is the most hazardous disease among women worldwide. A simple, cost-effective, and efficient screening called mammographic imaging used to find breast abnormalities detect in early stages so that patient’s health can be improved. OBJE

Introduction According to recent statistics, there has been a rapid growth of breast cancer in developing countries. Thus, early detection is essential. This study is based on the perception of people in the Northeast of Iran regarding breast cancer screening. Methods In a cross-sectional study, 1469 women were selected randomly in the period from April to November 2016. The study population ...