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Program for low-income women suggests vital importance of access to screening.
2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low-income women participating in an Oregon breast cancer screening program had a higher incidence of breast cancer than women in other screening programs, according to Oregon Health & Science University researchers.
The study suggests women without access to care may use screening programs for evaluation and treatment of breast disease because they have no other avenue to care. Results of the study appeared in the August 2003 issue of the Archives of Surgery.
The Oregon Breast and Cervical Cancer Program was implemented in 1996 as a statewide screening program for medically underserved low-income women. The researchers studied women in the program to determine incidence and stage of breast cancer, the role of the clinical breast exam, and patient compliance with treatment.
John Vetto, MD, associate professor of surgery (surgical oncology) in the OHSU School of Medicine and a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute, and his colleagues evaluated 15,730 women who had a total of 23,149 mammograms and 20,396 clinical breast exams from January 1, 1997, to December 31, 2001.
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