Table 1.
Criteria for Determination of Receipt of Non-Guideline-Concordant Care
Subset | Inclusion Criteria | Guideline Treatment a | Definition of Non- Guideline-Concordant Treatment |
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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 |