Table 4: Rates of re-excision among women who underwent breast-conserving surgery for invasive breast cancer as the index procedure (n = 38 517), by province, 2007/08 to 2009/10.
Procedure | No. of women* |
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BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PEI | NL | Canada | |
Index breast-conserving surgery |
4 877 |
2 490 |
790 |
1 396 |
14 738 |
11 792 |
837 |
928 |
133 |
481 |
38 517 |
Re-excision |
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Breast-conserving surgery |
995 |
229 |
176 |
46 |
1 756 |
1 237 |
137 |
109 |
19 |
67 |
4 776 |
Mastectomy |
837 |
286 |
114 |
198 |
1 325 |
813 |
118 |
134 |
33 |
204 |
4 078 |
Total |
1 832 |
515 |
290 |
244 |
3 081 |
2 050 |
255 |
243 |
52 |
271 |
8 854 |
Re-excision rate, % | 38 | 21 | 37 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 30 | 26 | 39 | 56 | 23 |
*Unless otherwise stated.