Geographical inequalities in surgical treatment for localized female breast cancer, Queensland, Australia 1997–2011: Improvements over time but inequalities remain

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Geographical inequalities in surgical treatment for localized female breast cancer, Queensland, Australia 1997–2011: Improvements over time but inequalities remain

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Title: Geographical inequalities in surgical treatment for localized female breast cancer, Queensland, Australia 1997–2011: Improvements over time but inequalities remain
Author/Creator: Baade, P D | Dasgupta, P | Youl, Philippa H | Pyke, C | Aitken, J F
Description: The uptake of breast conserving surgery (BCS) for early stage breast cancer varies by where women live. We investigate whether these geographical patterns have changed over time using population-based data linkage between cancer registry records and hospital inpatient episodes. The study cohort consisted of 11,631 women aged 20 years and over diagnosed with a single primary invasive localised breast cancer between 1997 and 2011 in Queensland, Australia who underwent either BCS (n = 9223, 79%) or mastectomy (n = 2408, 21%). After adjustment for socio-demographic and clinical factors, compared to women living in very high accessibility areas, women in high (Odds Ratio (OR) 0.58 (95% confidence intervals (CI) 0.49, 0.69)), low (OR 0.47 (0.41, 0.54)) and very low (OR 0.44 (0.34, 0.56)) accessibility areas had lower odds of having BCS, while the odds for women from middle (OR 0.81 (0.69, 0.94)) and most disadvantaged (OR 0.87 (0.71, 0.98)) areas was significantly lower than women living in affluent areas. The association between accessibility and the type of surgery reduced over time (interaction p = 0.028) but not for area disadvantage (interaction p = 0.209). In making informed decisions about surgical treatment, it is crucial that any geographical-related barriers to implementing their preferred treatment are minimised. © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Relation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health / Vol. 13, No. 7, Article No. 729
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13070729
Year: 2016
Publisher: M D P I AG
Subject: FoR multidisciplinary | breast cancer | breast conserving surgery | geography | inequalities | mastectomy | socioeconomic

Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 1661-7827
Rights: Copyright © 2016 The Author. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
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