Does breast screening offer a survival benefit? A retrospective comparative study of oncological outcomes of screen-detected and symptomatic early stage breast cancer cases.
Eur J Surg Oncol
; 42(12): 1814-1820, 2016 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Mammography screening reduces breast cancer mortality by up to 32%. However, some recent studies have questioned the impact of non-palpable breast cancer detection on mortality reduction. The aim of this study was to analyse the clinicopathological and long-term follow-up data of early stage screened and symptomatic breast cancer patients. PATIENTS ANDMETHOD:
The institutional prospectively led database was systematically analysed for breast cancer cases diagnosed via the mammography screening program from 2002 to 2009. As a control group, symptomatic early stage breast cancer patients were collected randomly from the same database and matched for age and follow-up period. All medical records were reviewed retrospectively.RESULTS:
Data from 298 breast cancer patients were collected from 47,718 mammography screenings. In addition, 331 symptomatic breast cancer patients were randomly selected. The screened group presented a significantly lower median tumour size (P < 0.00001). The incidence of negative regional lymph nodes was significantly higher in the screened group (P < 0.0006). The incidence of chemotherapy was 17% higher in the symptomatic group (P = 4*10-5). At the median follow-up of 65 and 80 months, the screened group did not exhibit better overall (P = 0.717) or disease-free survival (P = 0.081) compared to the symptomatic group.CONCLUSION:
Our results do not suggest that mammography screening does not reduce breast cancer mortality but the mammography screening did not bring any significant improvement in patient overall or disease-free survival for the early stage breast cancer patients compared to the symptomatic group. The drawback of symptomatic early stage tumours compared to non-palpable tumours could be equalized by modern multimodality oncology treatments.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
6_ODS3_enfermedades_notrasmisibles
Problema de salud:
6_breast_cancer
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias de la Mama
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Mamografía
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Carcinoma Lobular
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Carcinoma Ductal de Mama
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Carcinoma Intraductal no Infiltrante
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Detección Precoz del Cáncer
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Surg Oncol
Asunto de la revista:
NEOPLASIAS
Año:
2016
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Article