Impact of mammography detection on the course of breast cancer in women aged 40-49 years.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To analyze trends in detection method related to breast cancer stage at diagnosis, treatments, and outcomes over time among 40-49-year-old women.

Materials and methods

i This study was institutional review board approved, with a waiver of informed consent, and HIPAA compliant. A longitudinal prospective cohort study was conducted of women aged 40-49 years who had primary breast cancer, during 1990-2008, and were identified and tracked by a dedicated registry database (n = 1977). Method of detection--patient detected (PtD), physician detected (PhysD), or mammography detected (MamD)--was chart abstracted. Disease-specific survival and relapse-free survival statistics were calculated by using the Kaplan-Meier method for stage I-IV breast cancer.

Results

A signifi

SUBMITTER: Malmgren JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6940006 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature