Landscape of young breast cancer under 35 years in China over the past decades: a multicentre retrospective cohort study (YBCC-Catts study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The proportion of young breast cancer patients in China is significantly higher than in Western countries, and the clinicopathological characteristics and clinical problems faced by patients in China are different from those in Western countries too, so there is an urgent need to conduct some studies for young breast cancer patients in Asia.

Methods

This study consisted of two breast cancer cohorts in China. The population-based cohort involved breast cancer cases diagnosed in 2000-2017 via cancer registration system, and we describe the epidemiological characteristics of the young breast cancer in China. The hospital-based cohort, patients eligible for enrollment were breast cancer in young women (≤35 years old) from eight centres in different regions of China, d

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10626170 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature