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Study objectives were to determine demographic characteristics associated with the adherence to OBSP and if women screened in\u00a0the OBSP have a lower stage at diagnosis than non-screened eligible women.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We used the Ontario cancer registry (OCR) to identify 48,927 women, aged 51\u201374\u00a0years, diagnosed with breast cancer between 2010 and 2017. These women were assigned as having undergone adherent screening (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200926,108), non-adherent screening (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20096546) or not-screened (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200916,273) in the\u00a0OBSP. We used multinomial logistic regression to investigate the demographic characteristics associated with screening behaviour, as well as the association between screening status and stage at diagnosis.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among women with breast cancer, those living in rural areas (versus the largest urban areas) had a lower odds of not being screened (odds ratio [OR] 0.73, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.68, 0.78). Women in low-income (versus high-income) communities were more likely not to be screened (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.33, 1.51). When stratified, the association between income and screening status only held in urban areas. Non-screened women were more likely to be diagnosed\u00a0with stage II (OR 1.91, 95% CI 1.82, 2.01), III (OR 2.96, 95% CI 2.76, 3.17), or IV (OR 8.96, 95% CI 7.94, 10.12) disease compared to stage I and were less likely to be diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (OR 0.91, 95% CI 0.84\u20130.98).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study suggests that targeting OBSP recruitment efforts to lower income urban communities could increase screening rates. 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