Fatal and non-fatal breast cancers in women targeted by BreastScreen Norway: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many breast cancer survivors experience anxiety related to dying from their disease even if it is detected at an early stage. We aimed to increase knowledge about fatal and non-fatal breast cancer by describing how histopathological tumour profiles and detection modes were associated with 10-year breast cancer-specific survival.

Methods

This cohort study included data from women targeted by BreastScreen Norway (aged 50-69) and diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during 1996-2011. Breast cancer was classified as fatal if causing death within 10 years after diagnosis and non-fatal otherwise. We described histopathologic characteristics of fatal and non-fatal cancers, stratified by mode of detection. Recursive partitioning identified subgroups with differing surviv

SUBMITTER: Tsuruda KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782016 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature