A cross-sectional population-based study of breast cancer screening among women with HIV in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As women with HIV live longer, the need for age-appropriate breast cancer screening will increase. We compared rates of screening mammography among women with and without HIV.

Methods

We used administrative health databases to identify all women in Ontario, Canada, who were eligible for screening mammography (aged 50 to 74 yr and no history of breast cancer) as of Apr. 1, 2011. We used multivariable log-binomial regression to compare the 2-year period prevalence of screening mammography in 2011 to 2013 among women with and without HIV and to examine the correlates of screening among women with HIV.

Results

We identified 1 447 015 screen-eligible women, among whom 623 (0.04%) were women with HIV. Women with HIV were less likely to undergo screening than wome

SUBMITTER: Kendall CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621963 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature