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2394096

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-10-11
pubmed:abstractText
Connecticut's first Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Campaign during April 1988 offered low-cost screening mammograms ($50) to women over age 34 who had not been previously examined. Following a brief mass media campaign, some 2,500 inquiries about the program were received over a seven-day period, resulting in 1,243 examinations of the detection of eight breast cancers. Program participants cited an enhanced awareness that a baseline examination was due, and knowledge about the availability of low-cost services as reasons for obtaining a screening mammogram. Their reasons for not having been previously screened included not having been advised by physicians to have such an examination (28%); high cost (37%); and failure to recognize the importance of periodic screening (21%). By contrast, relatively few women expressed concern about the test procedure (12%), or fear of finding cancer (9%) as reasons for not being screened previously. These findings underscore the benefit of cancer control efforts to reduce access and information barriers to regular use of mammography by women.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0010-6178
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
370-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Encouraging screening mammograms. Results of the 1988 Connecticut Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Campaign.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.