Ophira Ginsburg, Freddie Bray, Michel P. Coleman, Verna Vanderpuye et al.
Each year, more than 2 million women are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, yet where a woman lives largely determines whether she will develop one of these cancers, have access to timely and effective diagnostic and treatment services, and ultimately survive. Premature death and disability f...
Ava Kwong, Vivian Y. Shin, John Chi Wang Ho, Eunyoung Kang et al.
Approximately 5%-10% of breast cancers are due to genetic predisposition caused by germline mutations; the most commonly tested genes are BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. Some mutations are unique to one family and others are recurrent; the spectrum of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations varies depending on the geograp...
Ophira Ginsburg, Rajan Badwe, Peter Boyle, Gemma Derrick et al.
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer divide for women requires not only evidence-based policy making, but also broad multisectoral collaboration that capitalis...
H. L. Story, Richard R. Love, Reza Salim, A. J. Roberto et al.
Women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have yet to benefit from recent advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment now experienced in high-income countries. Their unique sociocultural and health system circumstances warrant a different approach to breast cancer management than that ...
Ophira Ginsburg, Mridul Chowdhury, Wei Wu, M. Chowdhury et al.
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate proof of concept for a smart phone-empowered community health worker (CHW) model of care for breast health promotion, clinical breast examination (CBE), and patient navigation in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: This study was a randomized controlled trial; July 1 to October 31, ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Onyinye Balogun, O. Ishaq, Freddie Bray et al.
BACKGROUND: Large-scale population studies demonstrate an association between mothers' deaths and child mortality in both lower and higher income countries. The authors estimated children's deaths in association with mothers' deaths from breast or cervical cancer, 2 common cancers in low-income and ...
Javaid Iqbal, Tahmina Ferdousy, Rahela Dipi, Reza Salim et al.
Background. The incidence of premenopausal breast cancer is rising throughout South Asia. Our objective was to determine the role of risk factors associated with Westernization for premenopausal breast cancer in Bangladesh. Methods. We conducted a matched case-control study between January 1, 2007, ...
Heather Story Steiness, Michelle Villegas-Gold, Homaira Parveen, Tahmina Ferdousy et al.
Breast cancer survival rates in lower-income countries like Bangladesh are approximately 50%, versus over 80% in high income countries. Anecdotal reports suggest that, beyond economic and health system barriers, sociocultural factors may influence a woman's care-seeking behavior and resultant early ...
Farah Ahmad, Syeda F. Kabir, Nabila Purno, Saima Islam et al.
In many low- and middle-income countries, breast cancer survival is low. Reasons for this are multifactorial, but delayed presentation for care is a common theme. In this survey study with 100 urban Bangladeshi women, we examined the role of socioeconomic and sociocultural factors on their likelihoo...
Naim Islam, Aïsha Lofters, Ashrafun Nessa, Mandana Vahabi et al.