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Are Many Community Hospitals Undertreating Breast Cancer?: Lessons From 24,834 Patients
Annals of Surgery, 07/29/08
Gutierrez JC et al. - Patients with IDC treated at teaching hospitals have significantly better survival than those treated at high-volume centers or community hospitals, particularly in the setting of advanced disease. Poorer long-term outcomes for IDC at community hospitals seem to be, at least in part, because of decreased use of proven life-extending adjuvant therapies. These results should encourage community hospitals to institute changes in treatment approaches to invasive breast cancer to optimize patient outcomes.
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