. Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in all regions of the developing world and is striking many women during …Breast cancer has not been sufficiently integrated into broader efforts either on maternal and child, or reproductive … health and this presents an opportunity to strengthen early detection. The analysis is based on global breast cancer …

and health decisions for data on womenś self-reported breast-cancer risk and screening behavior. This allows us to …

Background: The Dutch national breast cancer screening program invites women aged 50-75 for screening. By detecting the … disease in an early phase, the program aims to achieve lower breast cancer mortality and improve breast cancer survivors … effects of the Dutch national breast cancer screening program on diagnosed women's employment and income. Methods: The …

-economic differences. Using high-quality administrative data from Upper Austria, we analyze the socio-economic gradient in mortality and … healthcare utilization following a cancer diagnosis. High-SES patients are less likely to die after a cancer hospitalization even … for the observed SES gradient. Our findings suggest that low-SES cancer patients go to the hospital at a later stage of …

screening and breast cancer rates among women did not fall after the introduction of the PSA test …The effectiveness of population-level cancer screening is a salient issue in health policy that remains unresolved …. This paper investigates changes in mortality after the introduction of screening guidelines for breast and prostate cancers …