Breast Self-Examination Practices and Breast-Cancer Stage
- 10 August 1978
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 299 (6), 265-270
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197808102990601
Abstract
To determine the relation between breast self-examination performance and the clinical and pathological stage of breast cancer at first diagnosis, we studied 335 patients with breast cancer. Approximately one fourth of the patients reported that they had been practicing monthly breast self-examination, and half that they had never practiced breast self-examination. More frequent performance of breast self-examination was associated with more favorable clinical stage and fewer axillary-lymph-node metastases on histologic examination. On pathological examination, the age-adjusted maximum tumor diameter of patients practicing monthly breast self-examination was 1.97±0.22 cm (mean ± S.E.M.) as compared to 2.47±0.20 for those performing selfexamination less often than monthly and 3.59±0.15 for patients never performing breast self-examination.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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