Table 2.
Breast Cancer Recurrence and Patterns of Recurrence Detection
| Breast cancer recurrence | Standard follow-up Total = 53 n (%) |
Alternative follow-up Total = 37 n (%) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast cancer recurrence | |||
| Yes | 53 (24.9) | 37 (18.6) | 0.12 |
| No | 160 (75.1) | 162 (81.4) | |
| First site (s) of recurrence | |||
| Ipsilateral breast or chest wall | 14 (26.4) | 9 (24.3) | 0.82 |
| Contralateral breast | 5 (9.4) | 4 (10.8) | 0.83 |
| Ipsilateral axillary node | 13 (24.5) | 4 (10.8) | 0.1 |
| Non-regional nodes | 3 (5.7) | 1 (2.7) | 0.5 |
| Bone | 12 (22.6) | 12 (32.4) | 0.3 |
| Liver | 6 (11.3) | 6 (16.2) | 0.5 |
| CNS | 3 (5.7) | 5 (13.5) | 0.2 |
| Lung or pleura | 15 (28.3) | 15 (40.5) | 0.23 |
| Period of recurrence detection | 0.45 | ||
| Follow-up visit | 34 (64.2) | 21 (57.9) | |
| Emergency room/ interval visit | 19 (35.8) | 16 (42.1) | |
| Indicator of recurrence | |||
| History assessment or abnormal physical examination | 38 (71.7) | 20 (54.1) | 0.029 |
| Surveillance breast imaging | 13 (24.5) | 8 (21.6) | |
| Surveillance chest X-ray | 2 (3.8) | 7 (18.9) | |
| Others | 0 | 2 (5.4) |
n, number of patients; CNS, central nervous system