Researchers from State University Report Findings in Breast Cancer (Early detection of breast cancer in Brazil: data from the National Health Survey,…

Researchers from State University Report Findings in Breast Cancer (Early detection of breast cancer in Brazil: data from the National Health Survey, 2013)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Oncology - Breast Cancer. According to news originating from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "To analyze whether the actions of early detection of breast cancer, initiated with the medical request for mammography, differ between users of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and those who have private health insurance. From the data collected in the National Health Survey, we estimated the proportions of women who had medical request for mammography according to presence or absence of private health insurance."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from State University, "For assessing the factors related to having mammography medical request, we estimated crude and adjusted odds ratios and respective 95% CI by logistic regression. We also analyzed the main reasons reported for not having performed mammography after medical request, as well as the time between examination and result. Of the women interviewed, 66.7% had a medical request for mammography (59.4% among SUS users and 83.9% among those with private health insurance). Having private health insurance, higher education level, and being white were positively associated with having the medical request. Only 5.4% (95%CI 4.8-6.0) of women who received medical request failed to perform mammography - 7.6% were SUS users and 1.7% had health insurance. The most reported reasons for not being able to perform the examination were: not thinking it was necessary; having the test scheduled, but not yet performed; and not being able to schedule it. More than 70% of women received the result with less than one month from its execution."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The barriers to access a medical request for mammographic screening for breast cancer are higher among women who depend exclusively on SUS."

For more information on this research see: Early detection of breast cancer in Brazil: data from the National Health Survey, 2013. Revista De Saude Publica, 2017;51():122-129. Revista De Saude Publica can be contacted at: Revista De Saude Publica, Faculdade Saude Publ Da Usp, Av Dr Arnaldo 715, 01246-904SP Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from G.A.E. Silva, Estado Rio de Janeiro State University, Inst Med Social, Dept. of Epidemiol, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Additional authors for this research include P.R.B. de Souza, G.N. Damacena and C.L. Szwarcwald.

Keywords for this news article include: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, Diagnostics and Screening, Breast Cancer Screening, Risk and Prevention, Health Insurance, Women's Health, Oncology, State University.

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