Surveillance Testing Among Survivors of Early-Stage Breast Cancer

摘要: Purpose Guidelines recommend against routine surveillance testing for women who have had breast cancer. We described follow-up care cancer survivors, examined how varies by the types of physicians seen, and assessed changes in rates over time. Methods Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results–Medicare data, we studied a population-based cohort 44,511 age ≥ 65 years diagnosed with stage I/II during 1992 to 1999 observed through 2001. measured bone scans, tumor antigen tests, chest x-rays, other chest/abdominal imaging 3 consecutive years. seen used repeated-measures logistic regression assess relationship trends Results Nearly half survivors saw medical oncologist year 1, but only 27% annually In adjusted analyses, seeing oncolo...