Association of Population Screening for Breast Cancer Risk With Use of Mammography Among Women in Medically Underserved Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black women bear a disproportionate burden of breast cancer mortality in the US, in part due to inequities in the use of mammography. Population screening for breast cancer risk in primary care is a promising strategy for mitigating breast cancer disparities, but it is unknown whether this strategy would be associated with increased mammography rates in underserved women of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Objective

To examine whether providing individualized breast cancer risk estimates is associated with an increase in the rate of screening mammography.

Design, setting, and participants

A cohort study was conducted in women receiving individualized risk estimates as part of routine primary health care at federally qualified health centers in medically u

SUBMITTER: Schwartz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8433603 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature