Patterns of care over 10 years in young breast cancer patients in the Netherlands, a nationwide population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Each year, around 600 young (<40 years) breast cancer (BC) patients are registered in the national NABON Breast Cancer Audit (NBCA). The aim of this study is to compare patient and treatment characteristics of young and older age BC patients over time with a focus on outcome of quality indicators (QIs). Furthermore, we analysed whether de-escalation trends of treatment can be recognized to the same degree in both patient groups.

Material and methods

From October 2011 to October 2020 all patients treated for stage I-III invasive BC were included. Tumour characteristics, treatment variables and outcome of QIs of two age categories young (<40 years) and older patient (≥40 years) were analysed.

Results

In total 114,700 patients were included: 4.6% young patie

SUBMITTER: Maliko N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9663518 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature