Bilateral primary breast cancers. A prospective clinicopathological study
Bilateral primary breast cancers. A prospective clinicopathological study
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双侧原发性乳腺癌。
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发表时间:
1964
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J. Berg
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G. Robbins;J. Berg
A prospecitve 20-year study on the occurrence of bilateral breast ca ncer is presented. Among 1458 patients treated at Memorial Hospital New York 1940-1943 follow-up has proved a primary cancer in both breasts in 91. Incidence has averaged 7 patients per year per 1000 patients at risk. It is thought that overall frequency may have been greater than recorded. Women less than 50 years of age at the time of first mastectomy had about twice the risk as women who were over 60. The overall risk of a second cancer is 5 times greater than that of breast cancer in the general female population. It is 10 times normal for women less than age 50 but under 2 times normal after age 70. Women who have survived their first cancer (5-year survival) and are presently alive have an average life expectancy of another 15 years. The story for many is only half told but the risk tends to decrease with age. There has been development of a second breast cancer for each 8 deaths from the first cancer or 1 for each 3 deaths from other causes. About 1 in every 10 in the original series will be affected despite deaths fro m recurrence of the first cancer and other causes. The highest incidenc e was found among patients who had multiple cancers in the first breast. When the first tumors were low-grade duct cancers incidence of second cancers was least. When first tumors were comedocarcinomas or colloid carcinomas incidence was highest. Mixed patterns including mixed grades were common. Patients with metastases at bilateral cancers to develop. Second cancers had fewer metastases. They tended to resemble first cancers in type. The observed 20-year survival rate was 27%. Despite all the follow-up efforts 66% of the second cancers were not early when removed. Second cancers acting in conjuction with recurrence of the first cancer almost halved the survival expected. The greater the gains in early diagnosis and salvage from first cancers the more important become the second ones. The early years after the first mastectomy are the primary time for second cancers to appear.