Routine and interval detection of locoregional breast cancer recurrences and risk of subsequent distant metastasis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Follow-up for breast cancer survivors consists of after care and surveillance. The benefits of routine surveillance visits remain debatable. In this study we compared the severity of locoregional recurrences (LRRs) and the subsequent risk of a distant metastasis (DM) between LRRs detected at routine and interval visits.

Methods

Women diagnosed with early breast cancer between 2003 and 2008 in one of the 15 participating hospitals, and who developed a LRR as first event after primary treatment, were selected from the Netherlands Cancer Registry (Cohort A). Chi-squared tests were used to compare the severity of routine- and interval-detected local recurrences (LRs) and regional recurrences (RRs), using tumor size, tumor grade, and number of positive lymph nodes. Data o

SUBMITTER: Eijkelboom AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9823019 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature