ABSTRACT
Breast cancer mass screening by mobile units started in 1992 in the Province of Liège (Belgium). This project is developed for rural areas and interests all women between 40-69 years old not regularly X-rayed in traditional breast cancer diagnosis centers. Despite lots of efforts population participation is low (25%). Nevertheless, the experiment results are encouraging: in a series of 31,443 women, 213 cancers were diagnosed, corresponding to a rate of 6.9/1000, 75% of which are of good prognosis. After an 8 years experiment, it is hoped that the population concerned becomes more sensitive to this mass screening project and one should expect a better collaboration with the other actors in the field of breast diseases diagnosis.
Subject(s)
Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology , Mass Screening , Adult , Aged , Belgium/epidemiology , Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Carcinoma in Situ/epidemiology , Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/epidemiology , Community Participation , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Lymphatic Metastasis , Mammography/statistics & numerical data , Middle Aged , Mobile Health Units/statistics & numerical data , Neoplasm Staging , Population Surveillance , Prognosis , Rural Health/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
The goal of the mass screening of breast cancer undertaken under the authority of the Province of Liège is to focus the action on rural communities. For this reason, mobile vans equipped with X-Ray dedicated units are used. The main difficulty of this programme is to reach a massive participation of the population. It varies up to now from 45% to 20% in the different visited villages. During the 42 first months of functioning, 16,207 mammographies were carried out in women aged from 40 to 69; 69 cancers were discovered in apparently healthy women plus 10 cases of epithelial hyperplasia with atypias. These first results are quite encouraging. The main task of this continuing programme will be to reach a better participation of the population.
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Breast Neoplasms/prevention & control , Mammography , Mass Screening , Mobile Health Units , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Belgium , Breast Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Female , Fibrocystic Breast Disease/diagnostic imaging , Fibrocystic Breast Disease/prevention & control , Goals , Health Behavior , Health Promotion , Humans , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Staging , Patient Acceptance of Health Care , Patient Participation , Rural HealthABSTRACT
This article attempts to demonstrate that by means of a single vertical axis rotary chair, motion stimuli can be selectively presented to any one pair of sensors in the labyrinths of the vestibular peripheral end organs, to the exclusion of the others by means of appropriate motion profiles and coupling of the sensors and the stimuli. To be clinically useful, it remains for the appropriate ocular response to be established for each of the conditions described.
