Outcomes of surveillance mammography after treatment of primary breast cancer: a population-based case series.

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GOAL: To ascertain outcomes of surveillance mammography (SM) following treatment of early stage unilateral primary breast cancer (PBC) in a population based case series. METHODS: Random samples from all 12,279 women having breast surgery within 4 months after diagnosis of PBC, between July 1991 and December 1993 in Ontario, were drawn from a database created by deterministic linkage of PBC files from the Ontario Cancer Registry (OCR) with episodes of breast surgery extracted from the hospita...

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Authors: Paszat, L; Sutradhar, R; Grunfeld, E; Gainford, C; Benk, V

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Breast cancer research and treatment
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 169-178
• Publication date: 2009-03-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s10549-008-9986-4
• EISSN: 1573-7217
• ISSN: 0167-6806
• Language: English
• Keywords: Treatment Outcome; Female; Humans; Breast Neoplasms; Registries; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Population Surveillance; Middle Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Proportional Hazards Models; Aged; Mammography; Canada