Prevalence of Breast Cancer Risk Factors in a County with Elevated Breast Cancer Incidence Compared to a Demographically Similar Area in Northern California, USAaddress located in East/Central Contra Costa County (ECCC, including the communities of Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant ...
Multilevel examination of health disparity: the role of policy implementation in neighborhood context, in patient resources, and in healthcare facilities on later stage of breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019;28(1):59-66. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0945PubMed...
The UK Parliamentary Enquiry and USA Institute of Medicine state that lesbians may be at a higher risk of breast cancer but there is insufficient information. Lesbians and bisexual (LB) women have behavioural risk-factors at higher rates compared to heterosexuals such as increased alcohol intake an...
Keywords: HIV, Cancer, Concurrence, Prevalence, Mortality, Antiretroviral therapy, China Background People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are at higher risk of developing concurrent cancer due to the impair- ment of the immune system [1]. Cancer is in turn re- sponsible for increased HIV-...
The prevalence of overall anemia among WRA varied broadly across LMICs (Fig. 1a,b). In 2018, anemia prevalence was highest in West African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries, including Gambia (50.3% (95% uncertainty interval: 43.3–57.5)), Senegal (47.3% (43.4–50.1)), Mali (47.6...
The UK Parliamentary Enquiry and USA Institute of Medicine state that lesbians may be at a higher risk of breast cancer but there is insufficient information. Lesbians and bisexual (LB) women have behavioural risk-factors at higher rates compared to heterosexuals such as increased alcohol intake an...
1 Anaemia in pregnancy is associated with increased rates of preterm labour, postpartum haemorrhage, low birthweight, short gestation, stillbirth, and infections for both child and mother.2 Anaemia in children is linked with impaired cognitive and motor development and susceptibility to infections, ...
It is estimated that 80–85% of pediatric cancer cases occur in the developing world but 10% of them have survived [8]. In the USA, it is reported that there are an estimated 15,780 children between the ages of birth and 19 years of age who are diagnosed with cancer. Approximately...
Health risks regarding tobacco consumption are widely documented in the literature [1,2,3] and are key risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD) [1,2,3], such as cardiovascular conditions [3, 4], cancer (lungs, oral cavity, breast, among others), chronic respiratory diseases...
6FD, UK; 3Information, Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd., York YO19 6FD, UK; 4Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA 94105, USA Abstract: A systematic review was conducted, summarizing international BRCA 1 or 2 (BRCA1/2) mutation prevalence in breast cancer....