Risk of hospitalisation and death due to bone fractures after breast cancer: a registry-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bone fractures may have an impact on prognosis of breast cancer. The long-term risks of bone fracture in breast cancer patients have not been thoroughly studied.

Methods

Poisson regression was used to investigate the incidence of hospitalisation due to bone fracture comparing women with and without breast cancer based on Swedish National registers. Cox regression was used to investigate the risk of being hospitalised with bone fracture, and subsequent risk of death, in a regional cohort of breast cancer patients.

Results

For breast cancer patients, the 5-year risk of bone fracture hospitalisation was 4.8% and the 30-day risk of death following a bone fracture hospitalisation was 2.0%. Compared with the general population, breast cancer patients had incidenc

SUBMITTER: Colzani E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5129831 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature