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Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening
In the 2000s, most of the female population of industrialised countries had access to mammography breast cancer screening, but with variable modalities among the countries. We assessed the number of mammography units (MUs) in 31 European, North American and Asian countries where significant mammogra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18781176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604657 |
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description | In the 2000s, most of the female population of industrialised countries had access to mammography breast cancer screening, but with variable modalities among the countries. We assessed the number of mammography units (MUs) in 31 European, North American and Asian countries where significant mammography activity has existed for over 10 years, collecting data on the number of such units and of radiologists by contacting institutions in each country likely to provide the relevant information. Around 2004, there were 32 324 MU in 31 countries, the number per million women ranging from less than 25 in Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, Poland and Hungary to more than 80 in Cyprus, Italy, France, the United States and Austria. In a multivariate analysis, the number of MUs was positively associated with the number of radiologists (P=0.0081), the number of women (P=0.0023) and somewhat with the country surface area (P=0.077). There is considerable variation in the density of MU across countries and the number of MUs in service are often well above what would be necessary according to local screening recommendations. High number of MUs in some countries may have undesirable consequences, such as unnecessarily high screening frequency and decreased age at which screening is started. |
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spelling | pubmed-25670702009-10-07 Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening Autier, P Ouakrim, D A Br J Cancer Epidemiology In the 2000s, most of the female population of industrialised countries had access to mammography breast cancer screening, but with variable modalities among the countries. We assessed the number of mammography units (MUs) in 31 European, North American and Asian countries where significant mammography activity has existed for over 10 years, collecting data on the number of such units and of radiologists by contacting institutions in each country likely to provide the relevant information. Around 2004, there were 32 324 MU in 31 countries, the number per million women ranging from less than 25 in Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, Poland and Hungary to more than 80 in Cyprus, Italy, France, the United States and Austria. In a multivariate analysis, the number of MUs was positively associated with the number of radiologists (P=0.0081), the number of women (P=0.0023) and somewhat with the country surface area (P=0.077). There is considerable variation in the density of MU across countries and the number of MUs in service are often well above what would be necessary according to local screening recommendations. High number of MUs in some countries may have undesirable consequences, such as unnecessarily high screening frequency and decreased age at which screening is started. Nature Publishing Group 2008-10-07 2008-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2567070/ /pubmed/18781176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604657 Text en Copyright © 2008 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology Autier, P Ouakrim, D A Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title | Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title_full | Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title_fullStr | Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title_short | Determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
title_sort | determinants of the number of mammography units in 31 countries with significant mammography screening |
topic | Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18781176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604657 |
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