Role of following up patients with breast cancer with a mammogram in detecting recurrence
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- ew breast cancer/recurrence in patients with primary breast cancer after treatmentCancerMalignant neoplasm of breast
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN37620362
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of East Anglia
- Brief Summary
2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33912343/ results (added 30/03/2023)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 2530
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who had primary breast cancer during year 2001 to 2006
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with distant metastasis or regional recurrence (chest wall, mastectomy scar or axilla)
2. Patients who were lost to follow-up or had no records
3. Patients who died because of reasons other than breast cancer during 10 years of follow-up and who were recurrence-free at the time of death
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Effectiveness of follow-up mammography at detecting recurrences/new cancers, measured using the hospital database with a minimum of 10 years of follow-up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The rate of detection of recurrence/new primaries by mammogram between patients whose original tumour was detected by screening and those who presented symptomatically, measured using the hospital database with a minimum of 10 years of follow-up