TABLE III.

Unique patients with visits to each physician type or specialty or combination thereof during the follow-up period

Physician type or specialty	Patients with visits during follow-up (%)
	British Columbia (n=9,338)	Manitoba (n=2,688)	Ontario (n=23,700)	Nova Scotia (n=2,735)
Primary care onlya	33.3	15.8	4.7	16.2
Oncology only
Medical	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.4
Radiation	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3
Surgery	0.1	0.2	0.2	1.2
Multiple	0.2	0.5	1.2	0.7
TOTAL	0.7	1.6	1.7	2.6
Primary care and oncologyb
Primary care and medical	20.0	26.3	16.8	5.4
Primary care and radiation	5.4	6.8	2.5	3.8
Primary care and surgeryc	15.1	7.1	6.8	44.2
Primary care and multiple	24.2	41.7	67.0	26.3
TOTAL	64.6	81.9	93.1	79.7
Other onlyd	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.3
No physician	1.2	0.4	0.3	1.2

^aWith or without visits to “other”; no visits to “oncology.”

^bWith or without visits to “other.”

^cVisits to a surgeon included all visits to a physician with a main speciality of general surgery as shown in the billing or claims data in Nova Scotia. In other provinces, visits to a surgeon included only visits to a surgeon who performed at least 1 breast cancer–related procedure during the study period.

^dFor example, optometry, podiatry, hematology.