Comparison of patients with small (≤2 cm) breast cancer according to adherence to breast screening program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated whether adherence to breast screening would yield a clinical benefit even among patients with small breast cancer (≤2 cm) by comparing differences between those who did and did not adhere to breast screening.

Methods

Patients who were diagnosed with invasive T1 breast cancer and treated at Gangnam Severance Hospital from January 2006 to June 2014 were included. Of the 632 study patients, 450 and 182 were classified as screen-adherent and non-adherent. Adherence to the breast screening program was defined as the completion of breast screening examinations within 3 years before cancer diagnosis. Recurrence-free survival (RFS) and metastasis-free survival (MFS) were compared between the groups. Propensity score matching were applied to compare surviva

SUBMITTER: Park JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5667799 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature