Feasibility Study of Case-Finding for Breast Cancer by Community Health Workers in Rural Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Touhidul Imran; Love, Richard Reed; Chowdhury, Mohammad Touhidul Imran; Artif, Abu Saeem; Ahsan, Hasib; Mamun, Anwarul; Khanam, Tahmina; Woods, James; Salim, Reza

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저자정보: Chowdhury, Touhidul Imran (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Love, Richard Reed (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Chowdhury, Mohammad Touhidul Imran (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Artif, Abu Saeem (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Ahsan, Hasib (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Mamun, Anwarul (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Khanam, Tahmina (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Woods, James (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center) Salim, Reza (Amader Gram Cancer Care and Research Center)

저널정보: 아시아태평양암예방학회 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 제16권 제17호

발행연도: 2015.1

수록면: 7,853 - 7,857 (5page)

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Background: Mortality from breast cancer is high in low- and middle-income countries, in part because most patients have advanced stage disease when first diagnosed. Case-finding may be one approach to changing this situation. Materials and Methods: We conducted a pilot study to explore the feasibility of population-based case finding for breast cancer by community health workers (CHWs) using different data collection methods and approaches to management of women found to have breast abnormalities. After training 8 CHWs in breast problem recognition, manual paper data collection and operation of a cell-phone software platform for reporting demographic, history and physical finding information, these CHWs visited 3150 women >age 18 and over they could find-- from 2356 households in 8 villages in rural Bangladesh. By 4 random assignments of villages, data were collected manually (Group 1), or with the cell-phone program alone (Group 2) or with management algorithms (Groups 3 and 4), and women adjudged to have a serious breast problem were shown a motivational video (Group 3), or navigated/accompanied to a breast problem center for evaluation (Group 4). Results: Only three visited women refused evaluation. The manual data acquisition group (1) had missing data in 80% of cases, and took an average of 5 minutes longer to acquire, versus no missing data in the cell phone-reporting groups (2,3 and 4). One woman was identified with stage III breast cancer, and was appropriately treated. Conclusions: Among very poor rural Bangladeshi women, there was very limited reluctance to undergo breast evaluation. The estimated rarity of clinical breast cancer is supported by these population-based findings. The feasibility and efficient use of mobile technology in this setting is supported. Successor studies may most appropriately be trials focusing on improving the suggested benefits of motivation and navigation, on increasing the numbers of cases found, and on stage of disease at diagnosis as the primary endpoint.

#Case-finding #breast cancer #cell-phone data collection

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