Effects of Waiting Time and Biopsy Methods on Invasive Breast Cancer Survival
Keywords:
biopsy, breast cancer, waiting time, survivalAbstract
Objective: To examine the effects of the waiting time from biopsy to definitive surgery and the type ofbiopsy method on invasive breast cancer survival.
Patients and Methods: Three hundred and fifty-nine medical records from women who were diagnosed
with unilateral, non-metastatic invasive breast cancer between January 2000 and December 2001 were reviewed.
Cox regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the waiting time, biopsy method, and
overall as well as disease-free survival, adjusted for other clinical and pathological factors.
Results: Patients were 50 years old on the average; 80% had stage I-II disease. The median waiting time
was 1.9 weeks. Fifty-five percent of patients underwent definitive surgery within two weeks of biopsy. Excisional
biopsy or frozen section diagnosis was performed in 74% of patients. The 5-year overall survival was 90% and
5-year disease-free survival was 79%. There was no significant association between the waiting time and overall
survival or disease-free survival after adjusting for tumor stage. Core or fine needle biopsy was significantly
associated with better disease-free survival, but not with overall survival, for patients with stage I-II breast
cancer.
Conclusion: The present study suggested that waiting time had minimal effects on breast cancer survival
whereas core- or fine-needle biopsy was associated with a better disease-free survival as compared with open
biopsy.
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a retrospective analysis. Lancet 1999;353:1132-5.
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cancer. CA Cancer J Clin 1971;21:132-3.
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patients with breast cancer by use of reverse transcriptase
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79:858-64.
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has no impact on local recurrence after breast-conserving
therapy. Breast J 2001;7:19-24.
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cancer after breast conservation therapy in patients
examined by means of stereotactic core-needle biopsy.
Radiology 2002;225:707-12.
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biopsy does not increase local recurrence rate in breast
cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2006;97:9-15.
19. Liotta L, Kleineman J, Saidel GM. The significance of hematogenous
tumor cell clumps in the metastatic process. Cancer
Res 1976;36:889-94.
20. Nishizaki T, Matsumata T, Kanematsu T, Yasunaga C,
Sugimachi K. Surgical manipulation of VX2 carcinoma in the
rabbit liver evokes enhance ment of metastasis. J Surg Res
1990;49:92-7.
21. Hu XC, Loo WTY, Chow WCL. Surgery-related shedding of
breast cancer cells as determined by RT-PCR assay. J Surg
Oncol 2003;82:228-32.
22. Cristofanilli M, Budd GT, Ellis MJ, et al. Circulating tumor cells,
disease progression, and survival in metastatic breast cancer.
N Engl J Med 2004;351:781-91.
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therapeutic strategies. New York: Informa Healthcare; 2007.
p. 103-45.
24. Uriburu JL, Vuoto HD, Cogorno L, et al. Local recurrence of
breast cancer after skin sparing mastectomy following core
needle biopsy: case reports and review of the literature.
Breast J 2006;12:194-8.
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