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180877 Low rates of breast cancer screening in Korean women compared with Korean American womenMonday, October 27, 2008
Significance: Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Korean American women as well as Korean women in Korea. Screening mammography is critical method for the early detection and timely treatment of breast cancer. However, many Asian women are not aware of the importance of screening mammography due to lack of access to health care resources and low perceived risk of getting breast cancer. Moreover, no study compared rates of screening mammography of Asian women in the U.S. and in their homeland.
Objective: To examine variations of breast cancer screening rate of Korean women in the U.S. and in Korea. Methods: We used the 2005 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data and 2005 Korea National Cancer Screening Survey. For CHIS data, SUDAAN software was used to take into account the design of the complex and multistage sample. Results: Screening mammography rates for Korean Americans were below those for white and well below Healthy People 2010 objectives. However, Korean American women reported higher rates of breast cancer screening than Korean women in Korea. Korean American women reported higher rate of ever had mammogram than Korean women in Korea: 75% vs. 57.4% for ever had a mammogram; 57.4% vs. 38.4% for had a mammogram in the past two years. There was also significant geographic variation in rate of mammography screening among Korean women. Discussion: Potential difference in screening rates between the Korean women and Korean American women may indicate an important influence of social and cultural factors on preventive health behavior.
Learning Objectives: Keywords: Asian Americans, Breast Cancer Screening
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I participated in manuscript writing and provided my expertise in Asian American health. I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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