Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry

Background. Few prospective studies have examined associations between breast cancer worry and screening behaviours in women with elevated breast cancer risks based on family history. Methods. This study included 901 high familial risk women, aged 23–71 years, from the Ontario site of the Breast Ca...

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Main Authors:	Zhang, Li Rita, Chiarelli, Anna M., Glendon, Gord, Mirea, Lucia, Knight, Julia A., Andrulis, Irene L., Ritvo, Paul
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391896/

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spelling	pubmed-33918962012-07-12 Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry Zhang, Li Rita Chiarelli, Anna M. Glendon, Gord Mirea, Lucia Knight, Julia A. Andrulis, Irene L. Ritvo, Paul Research Article Background. Few prospective studies have examined associations between breast cancer worry and screening behaviours in women with elevated breast cancer risks based on family history. Methods. This study included 901 high familial risk women, aged 23–71 years, from the Ontario site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Self-reported breast screening behaviours at year-one followup were compared between women at low (N = 305), medium (N = 433), and high (N = 163) levels of baseline breast cancer worry using logistic regression. Nonlinear relationships were assessed using likelihood ratio tests. Results. A significant non-linear inverted “U” relationship was observed between breast cancer worry and mammography screening (P = 0.034) for all women, where women at either low or high worry levels were less likely than those at medium to have a screening mammogram. A similar significant non-linear inverted “U” relationship was also found among all women and women at low familial risk for worry and screening clinical breast examinations (CBEs). Conclusions. Medium levels of cancer worries predicted higher rates of screening mammography and CBE among high-risk women. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3391896/ /pubmed/22792104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/545062 Text en Copyright © 2012 Li Rita Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Zhang, Li Rita Chiarelli, Anna M. Glendon, Gord Mirea, Lucia Knight, Julia A. Andrulis, Irene L. Ritvo, Paul
spellingShingle	Zhang, Li Rita Chiarelli, Anna M. Glendon, Gord Mirea, Lucia Knight, Julia A. Andrulis, Irene L. Ritvo, Paul Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
author_facet	Zhang, Li Rita Chiarelli, Anna M. Glendon, Gord Mirea, Lucia Knight, Julia A. Andrulis, Irene L. Ritvo, Paul
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title	Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
title_short	Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
title_full	Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
title_fullStr	Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
title_full_unstemmed	Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry
title_sort	worry is good for breast cancer screening: a study of female relatives from the ontario site of the breast cancer family registry
description	Background. Few prospective studies have examined associations between breast cancer worry and screening behaviours in women with elevated breast cancer risks based on family history. Methods. This study included 901 high familial risk women, aged 23–71 years, from the Ontario site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Self-reported breast screening behaviours at year-one followup were compared between women at low (N = 305), medium (N = 433), and high (N = 163) levels of baseline breast cancer worry using logistic regression. Nonlinear relationships were assessed using likelihood ratio tests. Results. A significant non-linear inverted “U” relationship was observed between breast cancer worry and mammography screening (P = 0.034) for all women, where women at either low or high worry levels were less likely than those at medium to have a screening mammogram. A similar significant non-linear inverted “U” relationship was also found among all women and women at low familial risk for worry and screening clinical breast examinations (CBEs). Conclusions. Medium levels of cancer worries predicted higher rates of screening mammography and CBE among high-risk women.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391896/
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Worry Is Good for Breast Cancer Screening: A Study of Female Relatives from the Ontario Site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry

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