Stage, treatment and outcomes for patients with breast cancer in British Columbia in 2002: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are very few long-term Canadian data on breast cancer outcomes by stage. We described the stage, treatment and outcomes of breast cancer at a population level for patients in British Columbia.

Methods

This population-based cohort study included almost all patients with incident breast cancer registered in 2002 (about 97.6% registry case completeness). For these patients, information on stage, primary local surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and survival outcome (based on registry date and cause-of-death data) were available. We calculated Kaplan-Meier curves for breast cancer-specific survival and overall survival by stage and analyzed prognostic and treatment factors with a multivariable Cox model.

Results

The 2927 incident cases of

SUBMITTER: Davidson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3985980 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature