American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 152, Issue 5 432-437, Copyright © 2000 by Oxford University Press
FD Gilliland, RD Rosenberg, WC Hunt, P Stauber and CR Key
For screening efforts to maximally reduce mortality in the general
population, a large proportion of women need to utilize mammography
routinely. To investigate utilization of mammography in a community
setting, the authors used population-based data collected by the New Mexico
Mammography Project for residents of the Albuquerque, New Mexico,
metropolitan area for the period 1994-1997. The authors computed screening
rates and the proportion of women who routinely use mammography. The
utilization of mammography was low. Only 50% of the women aged 50-74 years
were screened each year. Less than one third of women aged 40-49 years or
75 years and older were screened annually. The percentage of women who
routinely used mammography on an annual or biennial basis was low in all
age groups, especially among Hispanics and American Indians. Women aged
50-74 years had the highest percentage of routine annual mammography use,
ranging from 30% in non-Hispanic Whites to 20% in Hispanics. Current
utilization of mammography in community-based screening efforts is unlikely
to achieve a potential 30% reduction in breast cancer mortality.
Interventions are needed to increase the routine use of mammography.
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Patterns of mammography use among Hispanic, American Indian, and non- Hispanic White women in New Mexico, 1994-1997
Department of Preventive Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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