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Delayed presentation in breast cancer: a study in Iranian women

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Women's Health, July 2003
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Title
Delayed presentation in breast cancer: a study in Iranian women
Published in
BMC Women's Health, July 2003
DOI 10.1186/1472-6874-3-4
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Ali Montazeri, Mandana Ebrahimi, Neda Mehrdad, Mariam Ansari, Akram Sajadian

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A cross sectional study was conducted in Tehran Iran to examine the extent of patient delay and associated factors in the presentation of breast cancer. METHODS: A group of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients were interviewed and were asked about the period from first onset of symptoms to first medical consultation to indicate patient delay. This was studied in relation to patients' age, educational level, marital status, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, number of children and the nature of the first symptom seen. RESULTS: In all, 190 breast cancer patients were interviewed. Of these, 75% presented to physician within 3 months. Forty-two patients (25%) delayed more than 3 months. In multivariate regression analysis it was found that there was a risk for longer delay in widowed or divorced women (OR 3.7, 95% CI 1.5-9.7), women with a positive family history of breast cancer (OR 2.8, 95% CI 1.1-7.7), and less educated patients (illiterate: OR 5.2, 95% CI 1.5-17.7; primary schooling: OR 4.6, 95% CI 1.4-14.7). Significant associations also were found between delay presentation and the late stage disease (P = 0.01) and bigger tumor size (P = 0.004). CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that one in four women with breast cancer present late and this has significant effect on their disease prognosis. To reduce patient delay health education programs regarding breast cancer should be implemented and target women who are at higher risk of delay.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 96 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 15%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Postgraduate 9 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 17 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 11%
Social Sciences 5 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Unspecified 3 3%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 20 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2016.
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#6,386,541
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#686
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#14,881
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