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Mastectomy rates are decreasing in the era of service screening: a population-based study in Italy (1997-2001)

M Zorzi1, D Puliti, M Vettorazzi

  • 1Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy.

British Journal of Cancer
|October 18, 2006
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We enrolled all 2162 in situ and 21 148 invasive cases of breast cancer in 17 areas of Italy, diagnosed in 1997-2001. Rates of early cancer increased by 13.7% in the screening age group (50-69 years), and breast conserving surgery by 24.6%. Advanced cancer rates decreased by 19.4%, and mastectomy rates by 24.2%. Service screening did not increase mastectomy rates in the study population.

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