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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Geographic Inequalities in Breast Cancer in Italy: Trend Analysis of Mortality and Risk Factors.

Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Olivera Djuric, Simone Navarra, Alessandra Rossi, Anteo Di Napoli, Luisa Frova, Alessio Petrelli

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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7 authors.

Paolo Giorgi RossiServizio di Epidemiologia, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Olivera DjuricServizio di Epidemiologia, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8574-5938
Simone NavarraNational Institute of Statistics (Istat), Viale Liegi 13, 00198 Rome, Italy.
Alessandra RossiNational Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (INMP), Via di San Gallicano, 25/a, 00153 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5711-5613
Anteo Di NapoliNational Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (INMP), Via di San Gallicano, 25/a, 00153 Rome, Italy.
Luisa FrovaNational Institute of Statistics (Istat), Viale Liegi 13, 00198 Rome, Italy.
Alessio PetrelliNational Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (INMP), Via di San Gallicano, 25/a, 00153 Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We calculated time trends of standardised mortality rates and risk factors for breast cancer (BC) from 1990 to 2016 for all women resident in Italy. The age-standardised mortality rate in Italy decreased from 4.2 in 1990 to 3.2 (×100,000) in 2016. While participation in organised screening programmes and age-standardised fertility rates decreased in Italy, screening invitation coverage and mammography uptake, the prevalence of women who breastfed and mean age at birth increased. Although southern regions had favourable prevalence of protective risk factors in the 1990s, fertility rates decreased in southern regions and increased in northern regions, which in 2016 had a higher rate (1.28 vs. 1.32 child per woman) and a smaller increase in women who breastfed (+4% vs. +30%). In 2000, mammography screening uptake was lower in southern than in northern and central regions (28% vs. 52%). However, the increase in mammography uptake was higher in southern (203%) than in northern and central Italy (80%), reducing the gap. Participation in mammographic screening programmes decreased in southern Italy (-10%) but increased in the North (6.6%). Geographic differences in mortality and risk factor prevalence is diminishing, with the South losing all of its historical advantage in breast cancer mortality.

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AgedBreast NeoplasmsChildCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansItalyMammographyMass ScreeningMiddle AgedRisk FactorsSocioeconomic Factorsbreast cancerinequalitiesmortalityrisk factors

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PMCPMC7312287

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