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07/Oct/2024
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2024AO0760
Highlights Variability in screening protocols: only 42.8% of gynecologists and obstetricians follow the 40-74 years protocol, while 76.6% of family physicians follow the 50-69 years protocol. High rate of incorrect BIRADS™ interpretation: there were 46.3% incorrect responses among gynecologists and obstetricians and 77.9% among family physicians, highlighting significant knowledge gaps. Misconception about breast ultrasound: 39.1% of gynecologists and obstetricians and 20.3% of family physicians incorrectly consider ultrasound as a screening method. Impact of inadequate training: inadequate training leads to improper […]
Keywords: attitudes; Brazil; Breast neoplasms; Family; Gynecologists; Health knowledge; Mammography; Mass screening; Obstetricians; Physicians; practice; Preventive medicine; Surveys and questionnaires
15/Dec/2021
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2021AO6721
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer diagnosis in a breast imaging center. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study that included women submitted to breast exams and procedures in a private hospital in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, as from the period of most strict social isolation measures, in 2020 (separated in first period of social isolation, March 24 to June 21, 2020, and second period, June 22 to December 31, 2020), as compared to […]
Keywords: Brazil; Breast cancer screening; Breast neoplasms; Coronavirus infections; Early detection of cancer; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Mammography; Prognosis; Ultrasonography, mammary
01/Jul/2016
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082016AO3708
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate association of sociodemographic, anthropometric, and epidemiological factors with result of mammogram in women undergoing breast cancer screening. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with data obtained through interviews, anthropometric measurements, and mammography of 600 women aged 40 to 69 years at the Preventive Medicine Department of Hospital de Câncer de Barretos, Brazil, in 2014. The results of these examinations in the BI-RADS categories 1 and 2 were grouped and classified in this study as normal mammogram […]
Keywords: Breast neoplasms; Mammography; Mass screening; Obesity
01/Jan/2010
01/Jan/2010
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082010A01454
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the profile of women looking for gynecological care to the profile of women invited to participate in the program, assessing breast and cervical cancer risk factors in each group and comparing Papanicolaou’s test and mammography results. Methods: Medical records of 46 women participating in a breast and cervical cancer prevention program and 42 medical reports of women that regularly visited the primary healthcare unit from August to December 2006 were examined. Results: The mean interval between […]
Keywords: Breast cancer prevention; Breast neoplasms; Cervix neoplasm prevention; Evaluation of the efficacy-effectiveness of interventions; Mammography; Mass screening; Patient acceptance of health care/ethnology; Uterine cervical neoplasms; Vaginal smears