Using a state cancer registry to increase screening behaviors of sisters and daughters of breast cancer patients
| Autor: | Mary A. Simmonds, S L Wojtkowiak, Daniel F. Heitjan, G B Weinberg, Peter S. Houts |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Counseling
medicine.medical_specialty Cost effectiveness media_common.quotation_subject Breast Neoplasms Breast cancer medicine Humans Mammography Family Registries skin and connective tissue diseases media_common Gynecology Daughter Palpation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Obstetrics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Pennsylvania medicine.disease Cancer registry Female business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 81:386-388 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.81.3.386 |
| Popis: | The Pennsylvania Cancer Registry was used to contact breast cancer patients and, through them, their adult sisters and daughters. The sisters and daughters were counseled concerning their higher than average risks for breast cancer and their need for mammography and breast self-examination. Results showed a 9 percent increase in mammography and a 10 percent increase in breast self-examination rates for the counseled over control group. Costs were $49 per counseled sister or daughter indicating a need to increase cost effectiveness before implementation is practical. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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