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Breast Cancer
Research from Taipei Medical University provide new insights into breast cancer
July 24th, 2008
"This study sets out to examine the relationship between both surgeon and hospital volume and five-year survival rates for breast cancer patients. We performed Cox proportional hazard regressions on a pooled population-based database linking the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database with the 'cause of death' data file, covering the three-year period from January 1997 to December 1999," scientists in Taipei, Taiwan report. "Of the 13,360 breast cancer resection patients in our study sample, the five-year survival rates, by surgeon volume, were 77.3% in the high-volume group (> 201 cases), 76.9% in the medium-volume group (45-200), and 69.5% in the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-24)
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