Barriers to mammography screening in Iranian women: a pilot study [PDF]
مجله پزشکی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریزBackground. In Iran, the low rate of breast cancer (BC) screening and late diagnosis are among the main reasons for the increase in BC mortality. Various factors can affect the low rate of BC screening.
Shayesteh Shirzadi, Hamid Allahverdipour
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Perceptions of Breast Cancer Screening in Older Chinese Women: A Meta-Ethnography [PDF]
, 2014 In Eastern Asia, as the incidence of breast cancer continues to increase yet compliance with breast cancer screening in older Chinese women who are at risk of early stage breast cancer is poor.
Banning, M, Shia, N
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National diagnostic reference levels for digital diagnostic and screening mammography in Uganda.
PLoS ONEIntroductionScreening and diagnostic mammography are associated with some risk of radiation-induced breast cancer. This study was conducted to establish the National Diagnostic Reference Levels (NDRLs) for digital diagnostic and screening mammography in ...
Denish Odongo +4 more
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Cancer Medicine, 2020 Background Breast cancer survivors are increasing followed for new breast cancers / recurrences by mammography screening only. We aimed at assessing how often breast cancer survivors get a false positive or false negative result at mammography screening.
Sisse Helle Njor +2 more
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Perceived Racial Discrimination and Nonadherence to Screening Mammography
, 2007 Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought
Dailey, Amy B. +3 more
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Mammography screening in Greece: an exploratory survey of women’s views, experiences and behaviours. [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Internationally, breast cancer comprises 29% of all cancer incidences. In Greece, 1,500-1,800women die annually from breast cancer out of the 4,000 who are affected.
Cox, K +3 more
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Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences, 2016 Background: breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide, although breast screening with Mammography can reduce mortality in breast cancer. Women perceived fear, barriers, benefit, and self-efficacy can affect their decision
Bayda'a Abdul Kareem
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Breast Cancer Screening in Racialized Women: Implications for Health Equity [PDF]
, 2014 Inequalities across the breast cancer continuum due to racialization have significantly affected women's access to screening programs, diagnosis, treatment and survival.
Aziza Mahamoud
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Feasibility of Using Technology to Disseminate Evidence to Rural Nurses and Improve Patient Outcomes [PDF]
Background: Rural African American women receive less frequent mammography screening and die of breast cancer at a higher rate than is seen in the general population.
John Pepper, Steven Stern
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Threshold-free Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction: Average Precision versus Area Under the ROC Curve [PDF]
, 2013 When evaluating medical tests or biomarkers for disease classification, the area under the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a widely used performance metric that does not require us to commit to a specific decision threshold. For the same
Su, Wanhua, Yuan, Yan, Zhu, Mu
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