Journal article
Bodyweight and other correlates of symptom-detected breast cancers in a population offered screening
A Kricker, T Disipio, J Stone, C Goumas, JE Armes, DM Gertig, BK Armstrong
Cancer Causes and Control | SPRINGER | Published : 2012
Abstract
Objective: To determine the factors associated with symptom-detected breast cancers in a population offered screening. Methods: We interviewed 1,459 Australian women aged 40-69, 946 with symptom-detected and 513 with mammogram-detected invasive breast cancers ≥1.1 cm in diameter about their personal, mammogram, and breast histories before diagnosis and reviewed medical records for tumor characteristics and mammogram dates, calculating ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for symptom- versus mammogram-detected cancers in logistic regression models. Results: Lack of regular mammograms (<2 mammograms in the 4.5 years before diagnosis) was the strongest correlate of symptom-detected breast can..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (project grant no. 197801) and The University of Sydney Medical Foundation. Bruce Armstrong's research was supported by a University of Sydney Medical Foundation program grant. We gratefully acknowledge the individuals who participated in the research, the clinicians who gave permission for us to approach their patients, Professor Beth Newman who led the study in Queensland and Sheree Harrison for data collection there, Sharon Gill for data collection in Victoria and Lisa Trotter in NSW, and staff at the NSW Central Cancer Registry and Queensland and Victorian Cancer Registries and the Hunter Valley Research Foundation.