Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in a New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Site

Objectives: The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides free or low-cost screening to uninsured or underinsured women and has had positive results; however, only a few state programs have been evaluated. This study will provide a first snapshot of the effectiveness of the New Jersey program, by comparing stage at diagnosis for enrollees as compared with nonenrollees who received definitive treatment for breast cancer at the same academic medical center. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of 5 years of breast cancer data abstracted from the Cancer Registry of a large urban hospital in the Northeast United States. Bivariate analysis and logistic regression were utilized. Results: One thousand forty women were screened for and diagnosed with breast cancer at this site; they were more likely to be racially (P

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