Screening mammography in older women: a review

LC Walter, MA Schonberg - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Guidelines recommend individualizing screening mammography decisions for
women aged 75 years and older. However, little pragmatic guidance is available to help …

Approach to preventive care in the elderly

B Tazkarji, R Lam, S Lee, S Meiyappan - Canadian Family Physician, 2016 - cfp.ca
Objective To guide family physicians in creating preventive screening and treatment plans
for their elderly patients. Sources of information The MEDLINE database was searched for …

Patterns and predictors of screening for breast and cervical cancer in women with CKD

G Wong, JS Hayward, E McArthur… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Results The 2-year cumulative incidences were 61% among women without CKD, 54% for
those with CKD stages 3a and 3b, 37% for those with CKD stages 4 and 5, and 26% for …

Breast cancer amongst Filipino migrants: a review of the literature and ten-year institutional analysis

JS Simpson, K Briggs, R George - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2015 - Springer
As one migrates from an area of low to high incidence of breast cancer their personal risk of
developing breast cancer increases. This is however not equally distributed across all races …

Mammography screening

C Meltzer, P Skaane - Breast Imaging: Diagnosis and Intervention, 2022 - Springer
Breast cancer screening with mammography is a validated and effective method, with a
mortality reduction among women attending the program in the range of 25–45%. European …

[HTML][HTML] Health Policy as a Barrier to First Nations Peoples' Access to Cancer Screening

JK Tobias, J Tinmouth, LC Senese, N Jumah… - Healthcare …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: First Nations peoples in Ontario are facing increasing rates of cancer and have
been found to have poorer survival. Cancer screening is an important strategy to improve …

Cancer screening in older adults

SA Wingfield, MT Heflin - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2016 - geriatric.theclinics.com
Cancer is a devastating disease that exerts a significant impact on the public health of the
United States. In 2015, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed and …

J ordanian Women's Personal Practices Regarding Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer

M Al‐Hussami, R Zeilani… - … journal of nursing …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Breast cancer, as a leading cause of mortality, is responsible for 12.5% of all
deaths in J ordan. Objectives The aim of this study was to describe J ordanian women's …

The knowledge value-chain of genetic counseling for breast cancer: an empirical assessment of prediction and communication processes

N Amara, J Blouin-Bougie, J Jbilou, N Halilem… - Familial Cancer, 2016 - Springer
The aim of this paper is twofold: to analyze the genetic counseling process for breast cancer
with a theoretical knowledge transfer lens and to compare generalists, medical specialists …

[PDF][PDF] A public health education initiative for women with a family history of breast/ovarian cancer: why did it take Angelina Jolie?

J Nisker - 2013 - ir.lib.uwo.ca
Angelina Jolie, whose mother died of ovarian cancer at age 56, has provided the public
health education for Canadian women at hereditary risk of developing breast/ovarian cancer …