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Breast and colorectal cancer screening and sources of cancer information among older women in the United States: results from the 2003 Health Information National Trends SurveySteven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A57. 2007....
Breast and cervical carcinoma screening practices among women in rural and nonrural areas of the United States, 1998-1999Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 94:2801-12. 2002....- Breast and cervical cancer screening practices among Hispanic and non-Hispanic women residing near the United States-Mexico border, 1999-2000Steven S Coughlin
The Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Fam Community Health 26:130-9. 2003..Results underscore the need for continued efforts to ensure that medically underserved women who live in the border region have access to cancer screening services... - Breast cancer screening practices among women in the United States, 2000Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Cancer Causes Control 15:159-70. 2004..These results underscore the need for continued efforts to ensure that uninsured women and those who are medically underserved have access to cancer screening services... - Colorectal cancer screening practices among men and women in rural and nonrural areas of the United States, 1999Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Rural Health 20:118-24. 2004..Previous studies have suggested that men and women in rural areas are less likely than those in urban areas to receive routine cancer screening... - Diabetes mellitus as a predictor of cancer mortality in a large cohort of US adultsSteven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1160-7. 2004..11, 1.45). These associations were not explained by high body mass. Our findings suggest that diabetes is an independent predictor of mortality from cancer of the colon, pancreas, female breast, and, in men, of the liver and bladder... - Nonadherence to breast and cervical cancer screening: what are the linkages to chronic disease risk?Steven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A04. 2004.... - Physician recommendation for papanicolaou testing among U.S. women, 2000Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Northeast K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1143-8. 2005..Studies of other cancer screening tests (for example, mammograms) have shown that physician recommendation to get a screening test is one of the strongest predictors of cancer screening... 
Using cases with contrary facts to illustrate and facilitate ethical analysisSteven S Coughlin
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, NE K 55, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
Sci Eng Ethics 14:103-10. 2008..Cases with contrary facts, together with practical steps for identifying and analyzing ethical issues, are likely to be useful tools for illustrating and facilitating ethics analysis and stimulating the moral imagination...- Contextual analysis of breast and cervical cancer screening and factors associated with health care access among United States women, 2002Steven S Coughlin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:260-75. 2008..A significant interaction was also observed between the percentage of county female population who were Hispanic and the percentage who were non-Hispanic Black... - Rural/nonrural differences in colorectal cancer incidence in the United States, 1998-2001Steven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 107:1181-8. 2006..Few studies of colorectal cancer incidence by rural, suburban, and metropolitan residence have been published... - CDC-funded intervention research aimed at promoting colorectal cancer screening in communitiesSteven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 107:1196-204. 2006..Relatively few studies, however, have identified and tested intervention approaches to promote routine colorectal cancer screening among diverse populations... - Breast, cervical, and colorectal carcinoma screening in a demographically defined region of the southern U.SSteven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 95:2211-22. 2002..S., includes counties with high concentrations of African Americans and high levels of poverty and unemployment, and relatively high rates of preventable cancers... - Breast and cervical cancer screening among migrant and seasonal farmworkers: a reviewSteven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 26:203-9. 2002.... - Cervical cancer screening among women in metropolitan areas of the United States by individual-level and area-based measures of socioeconomic status, 2000 to 2002Steven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2154-9. 2006.... - A meta-analysis of estrogen replacement therapy and risk of epithelial ovarian cancerS S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 53:367-75. 2000..The odds ratios for estrogen use for other subgroups defined by geographic location and type of control group were not significantly different from one... - Breast and cervical cancer screening practices among American Indian and Alaska Native women in the United States, 1992-1997S S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Prev Med 29:287-95. 1999..Recent studies suggest that American Indian and Alaska Native women have important barriers to cancer screening and underuse cancer screening tests... - Breast and cervical cancer screening practices among Hispanic women in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1998-1999Steven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Health Services Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Prev Med 34:242-51. 2002..Results from recent studies suggest that Hispanic women in the United States may underuse cancer screening tests and face important barriers to screening... - Ethics instruction at schools of public health in the United States. Association of Schools of Public Health Education CommitteeS S Coughlin
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
Am J Public Health 89:768-70. 1999..A survey of US schools of public health was undertaken in 1996 and 1997 to obtain a general picture of public health ethics curricula... - Future challenges for research on diagnostic tests: genetic tests and disease preventionS S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Health Services Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:335-6. 2002 - Breast and cervical cancer screening practices among Asian and Pacific Islander women in the United States, 1994-1997S S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 9:597-603. 2000..These results underscore the need for continued efforts to ensure that Asian and Pacific Islander women who are medically underserved, including those without health insurance, have access to cancer screening services... - Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy StudyS S Coughlin
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 90:342-8. 1998..These findings suggest that black patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy are less likely to undergo cardiac transplantation... - Colorectal carcinoma mortality among Appalachian men and women, 1969-1999Lori R Armstrong
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Cancer 101:2851-8. 2004.... - What explains black-white differences in survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy? The Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy StudyS S Coughlin
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 89:277-82. 1997..Thus, the previously reported association with black race may be accounted for by socioeconomic factors related to access to health care... - Cervical cancer incidence in the United States in the US-Mexico border region, 1998-2003Steven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cancer 113:2964-73. 2008..This study was undertaken to help compare the patterns of cervical cancer incidence among women in the US-Mexico border region and other parts of the United States... - Breast cancer incidence among American Indian and Alaska Native women: US, 1999-2004Phyllis A Wingo
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 113:1191-202. 2008.... - Descriptive epidemiology of vaginal cancer incidence and survival by race, ethnicity, and age in the United StatesXiaocheng Wu
Louisiana Tumor Registry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
Cancer 113:2873-82. 2008..It has many of the same risk factors as cervical cancer, including a strong association with persistent human papillomavirus infection. Descriptive studies of the epidemiology of vaginal cancer are scarce in the literature... - Fecal occult blood testing beliefs and practices of U.S. primary care physicians: serious deviations from evidence-based recommendationsMarion R Nadel
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, MS K55, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:833-9. 2010..However, results from a national survey of clinical practice in 1999-2000 indicated that many primary care physicians used inadequate methods to implement FOBT screening and follow-up... - Interventions to increase recommendation and delivery of screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers by healthcare providers systematic reviews of provider assessment and feedback and provider incentivesSusan A Sabatino
CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S67-74. 2008..e., flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, or double-contrast barium enema)... - Colorectal cancer incidence in the United States, 1999-2004 : an updated analysis of data from the National Program of Cancer Registries and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results ProgramSun Hee Rim
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cancer 115:1967-76. 2009..By using recent national cancer surveillance data, the authors investigated colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence by subpopulation to inform the discussion of demographic-based CRC guidelines... - Cervical cancer incidence in the United States by area of residence, 1998 2001Vicki B Benard
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Obstet Gynecol 110:681-6. 2007..To examine differences in cervical cancer incidence rates among women in rural, suburban, and metropolitan areas of the United States... - Burden of potentially human papillomavirus-associated cancers of the oropharynx and oral cavity in the US, 1998-2003A Blythe Ryerson
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 113:2901-9. 2008..The objective of the current study was to describe the incidence rates of oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancers in the US with a focus on anatomic sites potentially associated with HPV infection... - Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices regarding colorectal cancer screening among health care professionals in rural Colorado: a pilot surveySun Hee Rim
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
J Rural Health 25:303-8. 2009..It also examines the association between health care staff members' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and personal practices for CRC screening and patient screening levels by practice... - Breast and cervical cancer mortality in the Mississippi Delta, 1979-1998H Irene Hall
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
South Med J 97:264-72. 2004..Historically, the Mississippi Delta region has been medically underserved. This may lead to lower cancer prevention efforts and higher breast or cervical cancer mortality rates... - Development of a public health research program for ovarian cancerChristie R Eheman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:339-45. 2006 - Comparison of racial/ethnic disparities in adult immunization and cancer screeningKaren A Lees
National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:404-11. 2005..The purpose of this study was to contrast these disparities with disparities in other clinical preventive services--mammography and colorectal cancer screening--that are targeted to older populations... - Burden of cervical cancer in the United States, 1998-2003Meg Watson
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 113:2855-64. 2008..This article provides a baseline for monitoring the impact of the HPV vaccine on the burden of cervical cancer over time... - Breast and cervical cancer screening among Appalachian womenH Irene Hall
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:137-42. 2002..Additional interventions are needed to increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates for Appalachian women to meet the goals of Healthy People 2010, targeting in particular population groups found to have lower screening rates... - Physician recommendation for colorectal cancer screening by race, ethnicity, and health insurance status among men and women in the United States, 2000Steven S Coughlin
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:369-78. 2005..0-95.2) reported that their doctor had not recommended the test in the past year. African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians/Alaska Natives were less likely to report receiving a recommendation for endoscopy compared to Whites... - Cancer survivorship: a new challenge in comprehensive cancer controlLori A Pollack
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Mailstop K 55, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:51-9. 2005..However, better coordination and dissemination may decrease overlap and increase the reach of efforts and there is limited evidence for the effectiveness and impact of these efforts... - Chronic respiratory illness as a predictor of survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy StudyS A Martin
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 88:734-43. 1996..Thus, the results of this population-based study do not suggest that history of chronic respiratory illness is an independent predictor of survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy... - Introducing the community guide's reviews of evidence on interventions to increase screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancersRosalind A Breslow
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S14-20. 2008 - Surviving cancer or other serious illness: a review of individual and community resourcesSteven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
CA Cancer J Clin 58:60-4. 2008.... - Client-directed interventions to increase community demand for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening a systematic reviewRoy C Baron
Community Guide Branch, National Center for Health Marketing, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S34-55. 2008..e., flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, double contrast barium enema). Specific areas for further research are also suggested in this report... - Cervical cancer screening in the workplace. Research review and evaluationSteven S Coughlin
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
AAOHN J 50:32-9. 2002..4. The occupational and environmental health nurse has an important role to play in worksite cancer screening programs... - An empirical study of the use of living versus deceased study subjects: associations with liver cancer in the selected cancers studyH Irene Hall
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/NCCDPHP/DCPC, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:15-20. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Selection of live controls for deceased cases is recommended to decrease misclassification in measures of exposure... - Learning amid controversy: prostate cancer knowledge and screening practices among US medical studentsDavid M Werny
Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Cancer Educ 23:108-13. 2008..We hypothesized that students' race and extent of training on these techniques would be associated with their administration of them... - Regional differences in colorectal cancer incidence, stage, and subsite among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1999-2004David G Perdue
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Cancer 113:1179-90. 2008..Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer morbidity and mortality for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs), but misclassification of race causes underestimates of disease burden... - Incidence of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx among American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1999-2004Marsha E Reichman
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Cancer 113:1256-65. 2008.... - Breast and cervical cancer screening among Mississippi Delta womenH Irene Hall
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 15:375-89. 2004..Additional interventions are needed to meet the goals of Healthy People 2010 for all women... - Incidence of ovarian cancer by race and ethnicity in the United States, 1992-1997Marc T Goodman
Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Cancer 97:2676-85. 2003 - Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer rates by age: NAACCR Breast Cancer ProjectSue A Joslyn
University of Northern Iowa, 221 WRC, 50614 0241, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 92:97-105. 2005..To examine age-specific rates of breast cancer incidence among racial and ethnic groups in the United States... - Colorectal cancer screening among Latinos from U.S. cities along the Texas-Mexico borderMaria E Fernandez
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:195-206. 2008..These findings suggest that strategies are needed to educate Hispanic residents of border communities about CRC and to motivate them to undergo CRC screening... - Complications at the end of life in ovarian cancerLisa J Herrinton
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 34:237-43. 2007..71, 95% confidence interval=0.53, 0.94, P for trend=0.02). The study, which preceded the establishment of palliative care programs, suggests that care given to ovarian cancer patients at the end of life may be inadequate... - A national survey of medical students' beliefs and knowledge in screening for prostate cancerStephen Marcella
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:80-5. 2007..Today's medical students are being educated at a time when there are no evidence-based guidelines for prostate cancer screening...