Breast Cancer

New breast cancer findings from Addenbrooke's Hospital published

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, June 13th, 2010

According to a study from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, "The aim of this study was to develop and validate a prognostication model to predict overall and breast cancer specific survival for women treated for early breast cancer in the UK. Using the Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC) dataset, information was collated for 5,694 women who had surgery for invasive breast cancer in East Anglia from 1999 to 2003."

"Breast cancer mortality models for oestrogen receptor (ER) positive and ER negative tumours were derived from these data using Cox proportional hazards, adjusting for prognostic factors and mode of cancer detection (symptomatic versus...

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