Early screening outcomes among non-immigrants and immigrants targeted by BreastScreen Norway, 2010-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to analyse results on early screening outcomes, including recall and cancer rates, and histopathological tumour characteristics among non-immigrants and immigrants invited to BreastScreen Norway.

Methods

We included information about 2, 763,230 invitations and 2,087,222 screening examinations from 805,543 women aged 50-69 years who were invited to BreastScreen Norway between 2010 and 2019. Women were stratified into three groups based on their birth country: non-immigrants, immigrants born in Western countries and immigrants born in non-Western countries. Age-adjusted regression models were used to analyse early screening outcomes. A random intercept effect was included in models where women underwent several screening examinations.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Thy JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10251461 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature