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Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women. It is also one of the most detectable and treatable cancers, and mortality has been declining over the past 20 years. RAND research has focused on the care of breast cancer and its side effects, as well as the secondary factors that influence detection, treatment, and recovery.

Journal Article
Evaluation of Approaches to Recruitment of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Breast Cancer Patients from an Integrated Health Care Setting for Collection of Observational Social Network Data
We compared approaches to recruitment of diverse women with breast cancer in a study of social networks. Mailed letter was the best approach to recruit diverse women with breast cancer and collection of social network data.
Jun 14, 2023
Journal Article
Evidence Map of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Management Options
This is an evidence-map of ductal carcinoma in situ treatment options and impacts on patient-centered and clinical options.
May 26, 2021
News Release
Use of Common Cancer Screenings Rebounded Quickly After Dropping at Start of the Pandemic
Screenings for breast cancer and colon cancer dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, but use of the procedures returned to near-normal levels by the end of July 2020.
Mar 22, 2021
Commentary
Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too
Successes in the early treatment of breast cancer are to be celebrated. But those achievements need not limit the development of further and better treatment for patients. Understanding the disease's wider effects could help bring this about.
Oct 22, 2019
Report
Factors affecting access to treatment of early breast cancer: Case studies from Brazil, Canada, Italy, Spain and UK: Implications for future research, policy and practice
RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer, divided into three interconnected phases. The third phase was a qualitative study assessing the factors affecting access and delivery of treatment for early breast cancer.
Jun 11, 2019
Report
A Review of the Research Landscape for Treatment of Early Breast Cancer: Implications for future research, policy and practice
RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three interconnected phases. The first phase was a mapping review on the published literature on the impacts of treatment of early breast cancer.
Jun 11, 2019
Report
Findings from a systematic review to explore the patient and societal impacts of disease progression in women who were treated for early breast cancer: Implications for future research, policy and practice
RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three connected phases. The second phase was a systematic review on non-clinical outcomes of recurrence after treatment of early breast cancer.
Jun 11, 2019
Report
Understanding the societal impact of treatment of early breast cancer: What are the non-clinical outcomes associated with disease progression?
RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. This study was divided into three interconnected phases. This is the summary report of the cross-analysis of data gathered through the three phases.
Jun 11, 2019
Journal Article
Effect of Time to Diagnostic Testing for Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Screening Abnormalities on Screening Efficacy: A Modeling Study
Even relatively small delays in diagnostic testing after an abnormal cancer screening test can reduce screening effectiveness, though the impact varies by cancer type.
Jan 24, 2018
Journal Article
Specialty Societies and Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations--Reply
Gynecologists order twice as many mammograms as family medicine and/or general practice physicians; physician specialty society guidelines may account for this wide variation.
Jan 24, 2018
Journal Article
Linking Reminders and Physician Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations: Results From a National Survey
Physicians are more likely to recommend mammograms when they are reminded to do so, despite variation in how much they trust mammogram guidelines.
Dec 18, 2017
Journal Article
Association Between Physicians' Experiences With Members of Their Social Network and Efforts to Reduce Breast Cancer Screening
Helping clinicians reflect on how their experiences influence their current screening patterns may be an important approach to improving their adherence to revised breast cancer screening guidelines.
Dec 7, 2017
Journal Article
When Guidelines Conflict: A Case Study of Mammography Screening Initiation in the 1990s
Analyzing the history of age-mammography patterns in the US may help us better understand and address current guideline conflicts.
Dec 5, 2017
Journal Article
Physician Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Following Guideline Changes: Results of a National Survey
Physicians' recommendations for when to start and end breast cancer screening vary, depending on their level of trust with the guideline-issuing organization.
May 23, 2017
Report
A General Agent-Based Model of Social Learning
This report describes a general agent-based model (ABM) for studying social learning, and uses that general ABM to explore the relationship between micro-influence and macro-dynamics for broad classes of problems.
Mar 31, 2017
Journal Article
Radiologists' Interpretive Skills in Screening Vs. Diagnostic Mammography: Are They Related?
There is a statistically significant, but weak to moderate correlation, between radiologists' interpretive performance in screen mammography and their interpretive performance in diagnostic mammography.
Aug 24, 2016
Journal Article
The Impact of Cancer and Quality of Life Among Long-Term Survivors of Breast Cancer in Austria
Perceptions of breast cancer's effect among long term survivors in Austria are influenced by, and in term potentially influence, the survivors' physical and mental health-related quality of life.
Jul 14, 2016
Journal Article
Variation in Screening Abnormality Rates and Follow-Up of Breast, Cervical and Colorectal Cancer Screening Within the PROSPR Consortium
This study characterizes variation in screening abnormality rates and timely initial follow-up for common cancer screening tests.
Jan 5, 2016
Journal Article
Collective Intelligence Meets Medical Decision-Making: The Collective Outperforms the Best Radiologist
While collective intelligence (CI) is a powerful approach to increase decision accuracy, few attempts have been made to unlock its potential in medical decision-making.
Sep 14, 2015
Journal Article
Misclassification of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) Mammographic Density and Implications for Breast Density Reporting Legislation
The aim of this study was to assess reproducibility of the four-category Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System [BI-RADS] density measure and examine its relationship with a continuous measure of percent density.
Jul 14, 2015

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RAND Topic:
Breast Cancer

Topic Synonyms:
Breast Neoplasms

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