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Bilateral primary breast cancer: A prospective study of disease incidence
Bilateral primary breast cancer: A prospective study of disease incidence
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Johnny Ray Bernard Jr, Laura A. Vallow, Elizabeth R. DePeri, Rebecca B. McNeil, Deborah G. Feigel, S
2005
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A prospective study was carried out, between January 1980 and March 1982, of all women who presented to the Breast Cancer Unit, Guy's Hospital, with a second primary breast cancer. The percentage of new simultaneous tumours detected clinically or by mammography was approximately 3 per cent. Routine mammographic screening of the contralateral breasts of patients with unilateral disease increased the rate of detection, fivefold, of simultaneous bilateral cancers. The incidence of nonsimultaneous b...
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