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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Oct 11;142(1):10.1007/s10549-013-2720-x. doi: 10.1007/s10549-013-2720-x

Table 3.

Number and Percentage of Women Who Received a Surveillance Mammogram in the Year Preceding a Second Breast Cancer Event (by stage) and a Comparable Reference Datea for women without a recurrence or second primary stratified by women who died of breast cancer, had no death and who died of other-than breast cancer at 10 Years and 15 years

10 Year Outcomes 15 Year Outcomes
Death Death
Event type Alive Breast Cancer Other than breast-cancer Alive Breast Cancer Other than breast-cancer
N % N % N % N % N % N %
Recurrence
    Local 7 / 15 47 1 / 1 100 1 / 3 33 7 / 11 64 1 / 2 50 0 / 1 0
    Regional 7 / 8 88 1 / 2 50 - - 2 / 3 67 3 / 4 75 - -
    Distant 10 / 19 53 14 / 20 70 7 / 10 70 4 / 6 67 2 / 7 29 1 / 2 50
    Missing 1 / 1 100

Second Primary
    Stage I or II 13 / 19 68 - - 2 / 2 100 11 / 15 73 - - - -
    Stage III or IV - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Unstaged 1 / 2 0 1 / 1 100 1 / 1 100 2 / 2 100 1 / 1 100 1 / 1 100
Disease-freea 519 / 878 59 13 / 42 31 62 / 212 29 269 / 642 42 3/ 40 8 31 / 161 19
a

For women without a second breast event, we used the median time to event for women with a second breast event (date of initial diagnosis+5 years+667.75 days) in years 6–10 as the time point from which to look back one year for receipt of surveillance exam; the same approach was used for years 11–15 (date of diagnosis+10 years+640 days).