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Breast Cancer
Outpatient visits did not improve survival of breast cancer patients and increased costs
December 22nd, 2005
Outpatient visits every third month instead of every sixth month did not improve the survival of breast cancer patients, but doubled the costs. According to a study from Finland, "We studied the cost of follow-up of 472 breast cancer patients without distant metastasis after primary treatment in four different schedules in a randomized trial. The mean follow-up was 4.2 years." "The four schedules differed in frequency of follow-up visits (every third or sixth month) and in intensity of diagnostic examinations (routine or on clinical grounds). Neither the frequency of visits nor the intensity of diagnostic examinations had any effect on disease-free...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-22)
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