Socio-demographic, clinical, and health-related factors associated with breast reconstruction – A nationwide cohort study

Autor: Robert Zachariae, Soren Christensen, Tine Engberg Damsgaard, Anders Bonde Jensen, Anne Bodilsen, Peer Christiansen
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Bodilsen, A, Christensen, S, Christiansen, P, Damsgaard, T E, Zachariae, R & Jensen, A B 2015, ' Socio-demographic, clinical, and health-related factors associated with breast reconstruction-A nationwide cohort study ', Breast, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 560-567 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2015.05.001
ISSN: 0960-9776
Popis: We collected registry- and questionnaire-based data on socio-economic and health status, tumor- and treatment-related variables, and explored associations with receipt of reconstruction and information about treatment options in a nationwide cohort of Danish women, treated for primary breast cancer. A total of 594 women were available for analysis, 240 (40%) of these received reconstruction. Multivariate analyses showed that receipt of reconstruction was associated with 1) younger age at time of primary surgery (
Databáze: OpenAIRE