Do American oncologists know how to use prognostic variables for patients with newly diagnosed primary breast cancer

摘要: PURPOSEThis project was designed to investigate how American medical oncologists actually use prognostic information treat primary breast cancer patients, and study their difficulties in combining complex sometimes contradictory information.METHODSA simple 2-page questionnaire faxed May June 1993 a sample of who were members the Society Clinical Oncology (ASCO).RESULTSWhen presented with case histories patients newly diagnosed invasive asked assess prognosis on basis tumor size, number involved axillary nodes, patient age, estrogen receptor level, progesterone there wide divergence opinions about probability disease-free survival at 10 years (both for cases which received no adjuvant therapy those did receive such therapy). The additional data (such as S-phase, histologic nuclear grading...