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Breast Cancer
Reports from Columbia University add new data to research in breast cancer
June 25th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Most women with localized breast cancer have a choice between mastectomy and breast conserving surgery (BCS). Aside from clinical factors, this decision may be associated with surgeon and patient characteristics." "We investigated the effect of surgeon characteristics on the BCS rate. We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database to identify women > 65 years, diagnosed with stages I-II BC, between 1991 and 2002, and used the Physician Unique Identification Number linked to the American Medical Association Masterfile to obtain information on surgeons. We investigated the association of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-25)
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