Screening for breast cancer

JG Elmore, K Armstrong, CD Lehman, SW Fletcher - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextBreast cancer screening in community practices may be different from that in
randomized controlled trials. New screening modalities are becoming available.ObjectivesTo …

Screening mammography in women 40 to 49 years of age: a systematic review for the American College of Physicians

K Armstrong, E Moye, S Williams, JA Berlin… - Annals of internal …, 2007 - acpjournals.org
Background: The risks and benefits of mammography screening among women 40 to 49 years
of age remain an important issue for clinical practice. Purpose: To evaluate the evidence …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with increased disease severity and mortality

…, RM Baron, L Baden, AM Tsibris, KA Armstrong… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and risk of disease progression remains
largely undefined in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Here, we quantify SARS-CoV-2 …

Assessing the risk of breast cancer

K Armstrong, A Eisen, B Weber - New England Journal of …, 2000 - Mass Medical Soc
Each year in the United States, breast cancer is diagnosed in more than 170,000 women.
Despite this substantial burden of disease, however, assessment of breast-cancer risk has …

Survival associated with treatment vs observation of localized prostate cancer in elderly men

…, JS Schwartz, F Wan, C Montagnet, K Armstrong - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
ContextProstate-specific antigen screening has led to an increase in the diagnosis and
treatment of localized prostate cancer. However, the role of active treatment of low- and …

Distrust of the health care system and self-reported health in the United States

K Armstrong, A Rose, N Peters, JA Long… - Journal of general …, 2006 - Springer
CONTEXT: Despite theoretical concerns that health care related distrust may lead to poor
health outcomes by interfering with effective health care, little is currently known about the …

Racial differences in trust in health care providers

CH Halbert, K Armstrong, OH Gandy… - Archives of internal …, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
Background Although trust in health care providers (physicians, nurses, and others) may be
lower among African Americans compared with whites, limited information is available on …

Racial differences in the use of BRCA1/2 testing among women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer

K Armstrong, E Micco, A Carney, J Stopfer, M Putt - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextGiven the current context of racial disparities in health and health care and the
historical context of eugenics, racial disparities in the use of genetic susceptibility testing have …

Cancer information scanning and seeking in the general population

…, A Romantan, JS Schwartz, K Armstrong… - Journal of health …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The amount of cancer-related information available in the media and other sources continues
to increase each year. We wondered how people make use of such content in making …

Racial/ethnic differences in physician distrust in the United States

K Armstrong, KL Ravenell… - American journal of …, 2007 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined the racial/ethnic and geographic variation in distrust of physicians
in the United States. Methods. We obtained data from the Community Tracking Study, …