Assessment of cancers’ diagnostic stage in a Deaf community - survey about 4363 Deaf patients recorded in French units

Autor: Hélène Hayet, Marie Clavel, Vladimir Druel, Laetitia Esman, Marie-Eve Rougé Bugat
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Practice
Cancer Research
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
Deafness
lcsh:RC254-282
Medical Records
Sign Language
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Neoplasms
Statistical significance
Genetics
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Neoplasm Metastasis
Stage (cooking)
education
Early Detection of Cancer
Screening procedures
Health inequalities
Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Cancer
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Public health
Medical record
Communication
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Exact test
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
France
business
General practice
Deaf
Research Article
Delayed diagnosis
Zdroj: BMC Cancer, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
BMC Cancer
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3972-3
Popis: Background Deaf people represent 0.1% of the French population and their access to public health campaigns is limited due to their frequent illiteracy and the infrequent use of sign language in campaigns. There is also a lack of general health knowledge in spite of the existence of French Deaf Care Units (UASS). The aim of this study is to assess the average diagnostic stage of cancer in the Deaf Community and discuss deafness as a contributing factor. Methods Four thousand three hundred sixty-three Deaf patients recorded in five UASS, 80 diagnosed between 2005/01/01 and 2014/12/31 were selected from medical records and/or ICD-10 coding. Data regarding cancers were extracted, grouped by stage and compared to literature. Statistical significance was tested with Fisher’s Exact Test. Results Eighty patients were selected. Most cancers were diagnosed at advanced stages: of 11 prostate cancers, 46% were locally advanced and 18% were metastatic. (In the general population, this was respectively 3% and 10.4% (p
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