A population health assessment of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality in North Carolina

Purpose To identify predictors of screening mammography use and the effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality in North Carolina. Methods This cross-sectional study integrated publicly available data from government and private data repositories to model predictors of screening mammo...

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Published in:Breast cancer research and treatment 2022-12, Vol.196 (3), p.647-656
Main Authors: Burch, Ashley E., Irish, William D., Wong, Jan H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cancer research
Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Health education
Health literacy
Mammography
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mortality
Oncology
Oncology, Experimental
Patient outcomes
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Summary:Purpose To identify predictors of screening mammography use and the effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality in North Carolina. Methods This cross-sectional study integrated publicly available data from government and private data repositories to model predictors of screening mammography and breast cancer mortality in North Carolina. Results In North Carolina during 2008—2010, on average, 68.1% of women aged 40–74 years underwent a screening mammogram in the previous two years (range: 38.7%–82.1). The ordinary least squares (OLS) regression demonstrated counties experiencing persistent poverty have mammography screening rates that are 4.3% less, on average, than counties without persistent poverty (estimate (SE) = − 4.283 (2.105), p  = 0.045). As the percentage of women with a college education increases, the mammography screening rates increase by approximately 0.3% (estimate (SE) = 0.319 (0.078), P  
ISSN:0167-6806
1573-7217
DOI:10.1007/s10549-022-06773-3