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PATTERNS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER IN VICTORIA
Author(s) -
Hurley Susan F.,
Livingston Patricia M.,
Jolley Damien J.,
Hart Stewart A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1990.tb07491.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , general surgery , statistical significance , statistical analysis , breast surgery , cancer , statistics , mathematics
We analysed data on admissions to Victorian public hospitals for surgical treatment of breast cancer over the period July 1985 to December 1988. Of the 2993 women admitted, 28.7% received breast‐preserving surgery. The probability of a woman being treated conservatively was dependent on age, with women aged less than 50 or more than 70 years more likely to receive breast‐preserving surgery than women aged 50‐69. There was an age‐specific change, of marginal statistical significance, in the proportion of women receiving breast‐preserving surgery over the period. The public hospitals admissions database is a potentially useful means of monitoring patterns of surgical treatment.