Impact of surgical management of primary tumors in stage IV breast cancer patients: a retrospective observational study based on SEER database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although primary tumour surgery could prolong survival for patients with stage IV breast cancer, how to select candidates for primary tumour surgery is still a challenging problem for medical oncologists.

Design

This study is a retrospective database study.

Setting and participants

In this study, we aimed at evaluating the primary site surgery effect and select the beneficial subgroups. 13 618 patients with stage IV breast cancer, diagnosed between 2010 and 2015, were collected from SEER*Stat database.

Interventions

Based on the local surgery at primary tumour site, patients were categorised into three groups: primary tumour surgery performed group, recommended for primary tumour surgery but refused (RBR) group and surgery not recommended (NR) group.

SUBMITTER: Xie N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808454 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature