Open AccessReducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Female Breast Cancer: Screening Rates and Stage at Diagnosis
Author(s) -
Franco Sassi,
Harold S. Luft,
Edward Guadagnoli
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.071761
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , ethnic group , mammography , breast cancer , breast cancer screening , socioeconomic status , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer registry , population , cancer screening , odds ratio , health equity , cancer , gynecology , gerontology , public health , environmental health , pathology , paleontology , sociology , anthropology , biology
We assessed whether population rates of mammography screening, and their changes over time, were associated with improvements in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and whether the strength of this association varied by race/ethnicity.