[Preliminary results of the Russia (St.Petersburg)/WHO program for the evaluation of the effectiveness of breast self-examination].
Although an absolute difference of 10% (65,4 vs. 54,9%) in 5- and 9-year survival in breast cancer patients was recorded between the self-examination and control groups a large-scale randomized population-controlled study of 122,471 females has failed to provide significant differences (Log-rank - 0,774, p > 0.05). No significant decrease in mortality was observed in the self-examination group as compared with the untrained controls. As a result of providing more information to the population on risk factors. twice as many of the trained females consulted oncologists. Also, the number of early detection of breast tumor (T1-2NOMO) in both groups was 1,5-2,5 times that recorded elsewhere. Since 3,55 per 1,000 patients with breast tumors per year, aged 50-59, died of cardio-vascular disease, i.e. 3,1 times the expected 1,16 per 1,000, more attention should be focused on timely diagnosis and treatment of concomitant cardio-vascular pathology.
Semiglazov
V F
VF
Moiseenko
V M
VM
Protsenko
S A
SA
Bavli
I L
IL
Orlov
A A
AA
Ivanova
O A
OA
Barash
N I
NI
Chagunava
O L
OL
Golubeva
O M
OM
Migmanova
N S
NS
Seleznev
I K
IK
Popova
R T
RT
Diatchenko
O T
OT
Kozhevnikov
S I
SI
Aleksandrova
G I
GI
Sanchakova
A V
AV
Kharikova
R S
RS
Liubomirova
N K
NK
Ivanova
G V
GV
Azeev
V F
VF
Chuprakova
I S
IS
D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016504:Breast Self-Examination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014944:World Health Organization