scholarly journals Retraction: Factors affecting hospital readmission rates for breast cancer patients in Western Australia

2007 ◽  
Vol 108 (7) ◽  
pp. 504-504
Author(s):  
Michael A. Martin ◽  
Ramona Meyricke ◽  
Terry O'Neill ◽  
Steven Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Hospital Readmission ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Readmission Rates ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Hospital Readmission Rates

scholarly journals Factors affecting breast cancer patients' need for genetic risk information: From information insufficiency to information need

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Jung Hong ◽  
Barbara Biesecker ◽  
Jennifer Ivanovich ◽  
Melody Goodman ◽  
Kimberly A. Kaphingst
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Genetic Risk Information

Factors affecting lymphovascular invasion in node-positive breast cancer patients.

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (27_suppl) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
L. B. Cornwell ◽  
K. McMasters ◽  
A. B. Chagpar
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Lymph Node Status ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Extracapsular Extension ◽  
Community Size ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Clinicopathologic Factors ◽  
Pathology Reports

24 Background: Lymphatic and/or vascular invasion (LVI) is not uniformly reported in breast cancer tumors, and may be absent even in LN+ patients. The purpose of this study was to define factors associated with (a) the non-reporting of LVI, and (b) the finding of no LVI in LN+ patients. Methods: Data from 400 LN+ patients from a cohort of patients in a prospective multicenter study were reviewed. Institutional and clinicopathologic factors correlating with the reporting and finding of LVI were assessed using non-parametric statistical analysis. Results: Of the 400 LN+ patients in this cohort, LVI was not reported in 98 (24.5%) patients. Of the remaining 302 patients, LVI was reported as negative in 147 (48.7%). LVI was more often reported in later years (84.9% in 2001-2004 vs. 67.9% in 1997-2000, p<0.001). The reporting of LVI did not vary significantly by region, teaching affiliation, community size, or the surgeon’s proportion of breast practice or number of cases. Further, reporting of LVI was not associated with surgery type, patient age, number of positive nodes, size of largest metastasis, nor extracapsular extension. LVI was, however, more frequently reported in larger tumors (median tumor size 2.0 cm vs. 1.8 cm, p=0.030). Despite the finding that LVI was more frequently reported in later years, the proportion of patients found to have LVI did not vary by year (53.3% in 2001-2004 vs. 49.3% in 1997-2000, p=0.565), region, teaching affiliation, community size, or surgeon practice. LVI positivity was associated with younger age (median age 53 vs. 60, p=0.001), larger tumors (median size 2.5 vs. 1.8 cm, p<0.001), more positive lymph nodes (median 2.5 vs. 1, p<0.001), more macrometastases (58.7% vs. 36.5%, p=0.002), and more extracapsular extension (70.3% vs. 46.0%, p=0.001). Conclusions: Reporting of LVI has improved in recent years, and while the rate of LVI positivity has not changed in LN+ patients, it remains associated with poor prognostic factors in this cohort. Therefore, reporting of LVI should be encouraged as a standard part of synoptic pathology reports for breast cancer patients, regardless of lymph node status.

Factors Affecting Axillary Lymph Node Retrieval and Assessment in Breast Cancer Patients

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 3361-3368 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Cil ◽  
J. Hauspy ◽  
H. Kahn ◽  
S. Gardner ◽  
W. Melnick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Lymph Node ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Axillary Lymph Node ◽  
Axillary Lymph ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Lymph Node Retrieval
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