background: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the frequency of getting such health screenings as mammography and breast self-examination among a group of women and also to identify the role of health beliefs in predicting mammography practice. method s: the data were collected from a convenience sample of 113 female staff at the university of shiraz and shiraz university of me...

background the mammograms and papanicolaou (pap) test of women aged 25 to 64 years are iran’s national strategy for breast and cervical cancer screening, respectively. widespread primary care services are supplied through a network of primary health centers; nonetheless, little is known about breast and cervical cancer screening-related practices among healthcare workers in hospitals. objective...

Calcification detection in mammogram is important in breast cancer diagnosis. A super-resolution reconstruction method is proposed to reconstruct mammogram image from one single low resolution mammogram based on the compressed sensing by the contourlet transform. The initial estimation of the super-resolution mammogram is obtained by the interpolation method of the low resolution mammogram reco...

conclusions in this study, we proposed a new computer aided diagnostic tool for the detection and classification of breast cancer. the obtained results showed that the proposed method is more reliable in diagnostic to assist the radiologists in the detection of abnormal data and to improve the diagnostic accuracy. results after classification with the ensemble supervised algorithm, the performa...

OBJECTIVE To explore knowledge and beliefs (perceived risk factors, susceptibility, benefits, common barriers, and cultural barriers) in relation to mammography screening practices among Chinese American women. DESIGN A descriptive study guided by the Health Belief Model. SETTING Metropolitan area in the northwestern United States. PARTICIPANTS One hundred Chinese immigrant women, 40 year...

OBJECTIVES We examined the frequency of mammography screening among women who had had a screening mammogram recently and therefore generally did not need to repeat the examination. METHODS A population-based sample of 50- to 69-year-old women were surveyed immediately before and 8 months after they received an invitation to participate in the first round of screening of the newly organized ma...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the 2nd leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in the U.S. Although routine screening via mammogram has been shown to increase survival through early detection and treatment of breast cancer, only 3 out of 5 women age ≥40 are compliant with annual mammogram within the U.S. and the state of Florida. A breadth of lit...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare the differences in mammogram completion rates over time between Chinese American women with and without a history of mammogram screening
. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a randomized, controlled intervention study. SETTING Metropolitan areas of Portland, Oregon. SAMPLE 300 foreign-born Chinese immigrant women aged 40 years or older. Of these, 83 women (28%) had...

BACKGROUND The cumulative risk of a false-positive mammogram can be substantial. We studied which variables affect the chance of a false-positive mammogram and estimated cumulative risks over nine sequential mammograms. METHODS We used medical records of 2227 randomly selected women who were 40-69 years of age on July 1, 1983, and had at least one screening mammogram. We used a Bayesian discr...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women today and the major challenge is late presentation then later contributes to poor outcome and high fatality rate. Mammography is effective in early detection of breast cancer and consequently significantly improves the breast cancer survival. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was used to study the knowledge and awareness...