Abstract
In a retrospective review of 2820 patients with breast carcinoma seen at the Combined Breast Clinic of St George's Hospital over a 23-year period 101 cases were bilateral of which 52 (1.8%) presented synchronously and 49 (1.7%) metachronously. Twenty deaths occurred in the synchronous group after a mean follow-up of 56.2 months and 15 deaths in the metachronous group after a mean follow-up of 48.5 months following diagnosis of the second tumour. If timed from initial presentation patients with metachronous tumours fared better than those with unilateral disease (P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 259-64 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 1993 |
Keywords
- Breast Neoplasms
- Female
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
- Neoplasms, Second Primary
- Retrospective Studies
- Survival Analysis