Impact of Access to Breast Care For West Texas Program on Early Detection and Regional Breast Cancer Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study aimed to assess whether the Access to Breast Care for West Texas (ABC4WT) program impacted regional breast cancer detection and mortality in the Texas Council of Governments (COG)1 region.

Methods

Interrupted time series analyses were utilized to evaluate the impact of the intervention. Spearman's rank correlation and cross-orrelation analyses were performed to assess the relationship between the total number of screenings and (i) the total number of breast cancer detected and (ii) the proportion of early-stage cancer detected and the (pre-whitened) residuals. A three-way interaction model compared pre-and post-intervention mortality in COG 1 with the COG 9 region (control).

Results

Increased screening rate was associated with increased breast

SUBMITTER: Dhanasekara CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10176556 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature