1. The Challenge to Reduce Breast Cancer Mortality in Okinawa: Consensus of the First Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting
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Kazuya Sunagawa, Keiko Miyazato, Kyuichiro Miyara, Kanou Uehara, Takao Miyaguni, Shinji Nagamine, Kaname Kurashita, Junko Higa, Makoto Ueda, Takanori Ishida, Kano Uehara, Jun Miyagi, Nobumitsu Tamaki, Hisamitsu Zaha, Hiromu Tengan, Hironori Nomura, Mai Onomura, Masanori Gushimiyagi, Chiho Sato, Yoshihiko Kamada, and Kentaro Tamaki
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Adult ,Oncology ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Evidence-based practice ,Breast Neoplasms ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Breast cancer screening ,Breast cancer ,Asian People ,Japan ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Mass Screening ,Medicine ,Mammography ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Healthcare Disparities ,Poverty ,Socioeconomic status ,Disadvantage ,Aged ,Palpation ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Patient Acceptance of Health Care ,medicine.disease ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Unemployment ,Income ,Educational Status ,Female ,Ultrasonography, Mammary ,Rural area ,business ,Patient education - Abstract
Breast cancer mortality is gradually increasing in Okinawa. The 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was held on 6 July 2012 and discussions on how to curb the rising trend were focused on breast cancer screening, adjuvant treatment, socioeconomic and geographic issues, and the problem of complementary and alternative medicine. The consensus of the 1st Okinawa Breast Oncology Meeting was that ultrasonography screening is an acceptable screening system for Okinawan women because of the geographic disadvantage of having many small islands and rural areas. Educational and economic support is needed for women in rural areas to get correct information, for access to urban areas and to be treated by evidence-based optimal therapy for breast cancer. In addition, new approaches are needed for Okinawan people to successfully educate patients to correctly interpret evidence-based information.
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- 2013