Responding to a Community's Concern: A Comparison of Breast Cancer Characteristics and Initial Treatment in Three Selected North Carolina Counties.

Clicks: 422
ID: 67136
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Popular

Ranked #3 of 24 articles by views in north carolina medical journal

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
A 2007 national report identified North Carolina's Edgecombe County as having among the highest breast cancer incidence and mortality rates nationally, motivating the initiation of a task force and other local efforts to address the problem. The goal of this study is to examine county breast cancer characteristics before and after the report, including whether geographic variation may mask racial disparities in this majority African American community. With guidance from community partners, breast cancer cases from 2000 to 2012 in Edgecombe, Nash, and Orange Counties (N = 2,641) were obtained from the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry. Bivariate and trend analyses of tumor and treatment characteristics were examined by county and race. Women in Edgecombe and Nash Counties were diagnosed with more advanced stage, higher grade tumors. African Americans in Edgecombe and Nash Counties were diagnosed with advanced disease more often than African Americans in Orange County. Average time-to-treatment was well within guideline recommendations. Incidence and mortality rates appear to have declined, with variation in measures of racial differences over time. Changes in coding standards across the observation period required reliance on coarse measures that may partially mute useful findings. Racial disparities remain a concern in North Carolina; however, they appear to be less profound than in the 2007 national report. The portentous statistics in the report represent an all-time high, after which some, but not all, measures reflect positive change amidst ongoing local efforts to improve breast cancer knowledge and care.
Reference Key
vinesrespondingnorth Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Vines, Anissa I;Carpenter, William R;Chen, Ronald C;Cherry, Michele W;Long, Debra G;Amos, Keith D;Godley, Paul A;
Journal north carolina medical journal
Year Year not found
DOI
10.18043/ncm.78.6.357
URL
Keywords
blood pressure mortality hemodialysis cardiovascular pharmacoepidemiology beta-blocker carvedilol dialyzability end-stage renal disease (esrd) hypotension intradialytic hypotension (idh) metoprolol

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.