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Breast Cancer
Middle-age U.S. women who think their risk is low tend not to get mammograms
March 10th, 2005
A study of U.S. women between ages 40 and 79 years found that those who believe they are a low susceptibility to breast cancer were less likely to follow mammography screening guidelines. Yale researchers conducted the study with "1,229 African American and White women ages 40 to 79 years who obtained an index mammography screening examination at one of five urban hospitals in Connecticut between October 1996 and January 1998." An average of 1-1/2 months after index screening, each woman was interviewed by telephone about her perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and information about multiple covariates was gathered. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-10)
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