BACKGROUND Various centralised mammography screening programmes have shown to reduce breast cancer mortality at reasonable costs. However, mammography screening is not necessarily cost-effective in every situation. Opportunistic screening, the predominant screening modality in several European countries, may under certain circumstances be a cost-effective alternative. In this study, we compared...

Review content summary This systematic review of 117 studies aimed to determine the risks and benefits of mammography screening for women 40 to 49 years of age. Participants studied were women 40 to 49 years of age. To be included, studies were systematic reviews, randomized-controlled trials, and observational studies. When possible, reviewers focused on evidence from studies featuring specifi...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors associated with returning for second round mammography screening. SETTING This was a population based mammographic screening programme in Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN A cohort design was used whereby 668 women were interviewed before the screening programme began and attendance for both first and second round screening was ascertained from programme records. The...

BACKGROUND Increased use of screening mammography is associated with lower death rates from breast cancer in the United States. Despite recommendations that women over 40 years of age should obtain regular screening mammography at least every 2 years, many women do not adhere to these guidelines. Historically, women from underserved and minority populations have been less likely to receive scre...

BACKGROUND Little information exists on the receipt of mammography by African American women with intellectual disabilities. Given the high rates of mortality from breast cancer among African American women and low screening rates among women with intellectual disabilities, it is important to understand the health screening behavior of this population. OBJECTIVE We compared rates of mammograp...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the level of cancer fatalism and other sociocognitive behavioral determinants in Mexican American women categorized as regular mammography screeners and infrequent mammography screeners. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive. SETTING A southwestern American city on the U. S.-Mexico border. SAMPLE 68 Mexican American women with low incomes recruited from a cance...

CONTEXT Multiple national agencies and organizations recommend that women age 40 years and older have an annual screening mammogram. Women who are poor, less educated, lack a usual source of care, and reside in rural Appalachia are less likely to have had a recent mammogram. PURPOSE To increase use of mammography among a rural Appalachian population. METHODS Formed in 1992, the Indiana Coun...

BACKGROUND Screening with mammography can detect breast cancer early, before clinical symptoms appear. Some cancers, however, are not captured with mammography screening alone. Ultrasound has been suggested as a safe adjunct screening tool that can detect breast cancers missed on mammography. We investigated the benefits, harms, cost-effectiveness, and cost burden of ultrasound as an adjunct to...

BACKGROUND The fractious public debate over mammography screening recommendations for women aged 40 to 49 years has received extensive attention in medical journals and in the press. OBJECTIVE To learn how women interpret the mammography screening debate. METHODS We mailed a survey to a random sample of American women 18 years and older, oversampling women of screening age (40-70 years). Si...

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...