Time to Surgery and Breast Cancer Survival in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Time to surgery (TTS) is of concern to patients and clinicians, but controversy surrounds its effect on breast cancer survival. There remains little national data evaluating the association.

Objective

To investigate the relationship between the time from diagnosis to breast cancer surgery and survival, using separate analyses of 2 of the largest cancer databases in the United States.

Design, setting, and participants

Two independent population-based studies were conducted of prospectively collected national data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare-linked database and the National Cancer Database (NCDB). The SEER-Medicare cohort included Medicare patients older than 65 years, and the NCDB cohort included patients cared for at

SUBMITTER: Bleicher RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788555 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature