Reconstructive surgery and immigration status among females with breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Immigrants are susceptible to marginalization within health care systems, and breast reconstruction after mastectomy is a procedure prone to disparities in delivery. We sought to measure differences in immediate and delayed reconstruction between immigrant and nonimmigrant females with breast cancer in urban Ontario, Canada.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective population-based study using linked administrative databases held at ICES. We included female patients with stage I to III breast cancer, diagnosed from January 2010 through April 2016, who were treated with mastectomy. We excluded those with in situ disease only, missing staging data, another cancer diagnosis, no provincial health coverage, or rural residence. We categorized patients as immigrants if they

SUBMITTER: Lovrics O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12854801 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature