Breast self-examination practices and breast-cancer stage.

摘要: Abstract To determine the relation between breast self-examination performance and clinical pathological stage of cancer at first diagnosis, we studied 335 patients with cancer. Approximately one fourth reported that they had been practicing monthly self-examination, half never practiced self-examination. More frequent was associated more favorable fewer axillary-lymph-node metastases on histologic examination. On examination, age-adjusted maximum tumor diameter 1.97±0.22 cm (mean ± S.E.M.) as compared to 2.47±0.20 for those performing selfexamination less often than 3.59±0.15 These data associating stages need be extended by determ...