While breast cancer rates tend to be high in disadvantaged areas, someaffluent suburbsalso have high rates. Here, the explanation may be that many professional women establish a career and delay having children until later in life, which puts them at a higher risk of breast cancer than women ...
The study found that women with the BRCA1 mutation had, on average, a 72 percent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they were 80 years old and a 44 percent likelihood of contracting ovarian cancer. For women with the BRCA2, the chances were slimmer at 69 and 17 percent respe...
At the 2013 MHF, Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of Florida conducted a study to assess the motivators of and barriers to cancer preventive behaviors among a sample of attending men. This study examined these participants' self-reported likelihood of getting a cancer screening (CS) when...
The competing event, death, impedes the occurrence of the event of interest, breast cancer. This is not to be confused with the usual right-censoring found in survival data, such as censoring due to loss to follow-up. When subjects are lost to follow-up, they are still considered at ...
What motivated us in conducting this study is the current phenomenon of the mass vaccination process to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and the presence of hesitancy amongst the members of the public in getting vaccinated. The existence of social media, such as Twitter, has made the situation wo...