ArticleJournal of cancer epidemiology2012
Worry is good for breast cancer screening: a study of female relatives from the ontario site of the breast cancer family registry.
Article in Journal of cancer epidemiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Breast cancer worry in higher-risk women offered preventive therapy: a UK multicentre prospective study.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2021Article
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- Lung Cancer Screening Participation: Developing a Conceptual Model to Guide Research.Research and theory for nursing practice · 2016Article
- Does perceived risk predict breast cancer screening use? Findings from a prospective cohort study of female relatives from the Ontario site of the breast cancer family registry.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2014Article
- Ethnic differences and predictors of colonoscopy, prostate-specific antigen, and mammography screening participation in the multiethnic cohort.Cancer epidemiology · 2014Article
- Gender differences in attitudes impeding colorectal cancer screening.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Predictors of Breast Cancer Worry in a Hispanic and Predominantly Immigrant Mammography Screening Population.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
Background. Few prospective studies have examined associations between breast cancer worry and screening behaviours in women with elevated breast cancer risks based on family history. Methods. This study included 901 high familial risk women, aged 23-71 years, from the Ontario site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Self-reported breast screening behaviours at year-one followup were compared between women at low (N = 305), medium (N = 433), and high (N = 163) levels of baseline breast cancer worry using logistic regression. Nonlinear relationships were assessed using likelihood ratio tests. Results. A significant non-linear inverted "U" relationship was observed between breast cancer worry and mammography screening (P = 0.034) for all women, where women at either low or high worry levels were less likely than those at medium to have a screening mammogram. A similar significant non-linear inverted "U" relationship was also found among all women and women at low familial risk for worry and screening clinical breast examinations (CBEs). Conclusions. Medium levels of cancer worries predicted higher rates of screening mammography and CBE among high-risk women.
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