Special report Radiology Alliance for Health Services ResearchScientific reportsAssociations in breast and colon cancer screening behavior in women1
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Survey design and data collection
The BRFSS is an annual telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults designed to measure preventive health practices and risk behaviors in adults (15). The BRFSS contains a module on women’s health, including items on breast and cervical cancer health behaviors, and a module on colon cancer screening behavior. Although the survey does not capture the results of the screening tests, the women’s health component does record the self-reported reason for last
Respondents versus nonrespondents to colorectal cancer screening items
A total of 53,752 women aged 50 and older participated in the 2001 BRFSS; 52,478 (97.6%) responded to CRC screening items (Table 1). In the states in which the women’s health module was administered, 13,048 women (97.8%) responded to the mammography items and 12,987 women (97.3%) responded to the cervical cancer screening items. The respondents, whose average age was 65 years, were predominantly white or Hispanic with a median annual income of $25,000–$49,999. Almost all participants attended
Discussion
The ACS predicted that CRC would be the cause of an approximate 56,000 deaths in the year 2005 (1). Despite ample evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of screening in reducing colon cancer mortality, several population-based studies illustrate the suboptimal rate of CRC screening adherence (20, 21, 22, 23). According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 34% of eligible women had completed an FOBT within the preceding 2 years compared with 36% of men. Similarly, 33% of women had
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