Terminal digit preference and the accuracy of breast cancer diameter reporting based on Benford's law.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women all over the world, and it is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in women. A pathologist's partiality for the last digit of a patient's name can lead to errors in the measurement of malignancies. This means that, rather than recording the exact measurement of a tumor, a pathologist might round it off to his preferred terminal digit.

Methods

It is a retrospective cross-sectional study in which data on primary tumor resection for 1000 breast cancer patients was obtained from KRL Hospital's patient directory from November 2016 to December 2020. The tumors were measured in cm to one decimal point along their longest dimension. Ki-67 markers were used to categorize the tumors into nine categories. Termi

SUBMITTER: Ahmad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9289319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature