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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Surviv. 2019 Oct 23;13(6):968–980. doi: 10.1007/s11764-019-00820-7

Table 1.

Criteria for Determination of Receipt of Non-Guideline-Concordant Care

Subset Inclusion Criteria Guideline Treatment a Definition of Non-
Guideline-Concordant
Treatment
1   ▪ Stage I-III
  ▪ Tumor size ≤ 5 cm
  ▪ Not having a diagnosis of Paget disease, inflammatory carcinoma, or being diagnosed by mammography only
  ▪ Confirmed pathology
  ▪ Known lymph node involvement
  ▪ No diagnosis of bilateral tumors or a second primary breast tumor within 60 days
  ▪ Lumpectomy with full-course of radiation
  ▪ Mastectomy, with or without radiation
  ▪ No surgery
  ▪ Lumpectomy without radiation
  ▪ Lumpectomy with early discontinuation of radiation
2   ▪ Estrogen receptor (ER)+ and/or progesterone receptor (PR)+   ▪ Endocrine therapy   ▪ No endocrine therapy
3   ▪ Stage I-III
  ▪ Age <70
  ▪ ER- and PR-
  ▪ Tumor size >= 1cm
  ▪ Chemotherapy   ▪ No chemotherapy
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Definitions based on the Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology [33] and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Oncology Practice Initiative [35]