Comparison of pathological characteristics between self-detected and screen-detected invasive breast cancers in Chinese women: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In China, there is insufficient evidence to support that screening programs can detect breast cancer earlier and improve outcomes compared with patient self-reporting. Therefore, we compared the pathological characteristics at diagnosis between self-detected and screen-detected cases of invasive breast cancer at our institution and determined whether these characteristics were different after the program's introduction (vs. prior to).

Methods

Three databases were selected (breast cancer diagnosed in 1995-2000, 2010, and 2015), which provided a total of 3,014 female patients with invasive breast cancer. The cases were divided into self-detected and screen-detected groups. The pathological characteristics were compared between the two groups and multiple imputation

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5924684 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature