Incidence of bone metastases and survival after a diagnosis of bone metastases in breast cancer patients

Highlights • During the last few decades, the overall incidence of bone metastases after breast cancer has decreased. • Bone metastases remain a major source of morbidity in late stage breast cancer patients. • Incidence of bone metastases after breast cancer is higher in certain clinical subgroups....

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Published in:Cancer epidemiology 2014-08, Vol.38 (4), p.427-434
Main Authors: Harries, M, Taylor, A, Holmberg, L, Agbaje, O, Garmo, H, Kabilan, S, Purushotham, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Analysis. Health state
Awards & honors
Biological and medical sciences
Bone metastases
Bone Neoplasms - epidemiology
Bone Neoplasms - secondary
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - pathology
Cancer
Cancer therapies
Carcinoma - secondary
Confidence intervals
Epidemiology
Female
General aspects
Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Hospitals
Humans
Incidence
Internal Medicine
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Medical sciences
Metastasis
Middle Aged
Multivariate analysis
Pharmaceutical industry
Proportional Hazards Models
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Statistical methods
Survival
Survival analysis
Tumors
Womens health
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Summary:Highlights • During the last few decades, the overall incidence of bone metastases after breast cancer has decreased. • Bone metastases remain a major source of morbidity in late stage breast cancer patients. • Incidence of bone metastases after breast cancer is higher in certain clinical subgroups. • Survival after bone metastases is higher in breast cancer patients with bone-only metastases.
ISSN:1877-7821
1877-783X
DOI:10.1016/j.canep.2014.05.005