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Breast Cancer
Factors associated with decreased screening use identified from WHI study
January 20th, 2005
Further mining of data from the Women's Health Initiative study revealed that repeated breast cancer screening use by postmenopausal women declined as they perceived their emotional, informational, and social support to decrease. "Direct and interactive effects of social support, social burden (caregiving, negative life events, and social strain), education, and income on repeated use of breast cancer screening among a large (N=55,278), national sample of postmenopausal women participating in the Women's Health Initiative observational study were examined," wrote C.R. Messina and colleagues, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Their analysis...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-20)
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