Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer screening indicators in a Spanish population-based program: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on performance indicators in the population-based breast cancer screening program of Parc de Salut Mar (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.

Methods

We conducted a before-and-after, study to evaluate participation, recall, false positives, the cancer detection rate, and cancer characteristics in our screening population from March 2020 to March 2021 compared with the four previous rounds (2012-2019). Using multilevel logistic regression models, we estimated the adjusted odds ratios (aORs) of each of the performance indicators for the COVID-19 period, controlling by type of screening (prevalent or incident), socioeconomic index, family history of breast cancer, and menopausal status. We analyzed 144,779 invitations from 47,571wome

SUBMITTER: Bosch G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212994 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature