Table 1.
Model predicted age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates in 2004–2006 per 100,000 US women ages 25 years and older
| Scenarios | WHITE | BLACK | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISCAN-Fadia | SPECTRUM | MISCAN-Fadia | SPECTRUM | |||||
| Mortality rate per 100,000 | Mortality reduction (%) * | Mortality rate per 100,000 | Mortality reduction (%) * | Mortality rate per 100,000 | Mortality reduction (%) * | Mortality rate per 100,000 | Mortality reduction (%) * | |
| No screening or adjuvant therapy | 67.0 | - | 64.0 | - | 68.2 | - | 69.5 | - |
| Screening only (as disseminated in the population) | 54.6 | 18.6% | 49.9 | 22.0% | 55.9 | 18.1% | 55.5 | 20.1% |
| Adjuvant therapy only (as disseminated in the population) | 46.3 | 30.9% | 46.4 | 27.5% | 51.7 | 24.2% | 54.3 | 21.9% |
| Screening and adjuvant therapy (as disseminated in the population) | 37.5 | 44.0% | 37.4 | 41.4% | 41.9 | 38.6% | 43.2 | 37.8% |
| Observed mortality rate | 36.1 | 49.8 | ||||||
Mortality reductions (%) are calculated by comparing the predicted mortality to the background mortality in the scenario without screening and adjuvant therapy