Annual trends (2002–2012) in type of surgery for women diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer according to: A) age at diagnosis; B) American Joint Committee on Cancer stage; C) racial group; D) geographic (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) region.
(Adapted with permission from Wong SM, Freedman RA, Sagara Y, Aydogan F, Barry WT, Golshan M. Growing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Despite no Improvement in Long-term Survival for Invasive Breast Cancer. Ann Surg. 2017;265(3):581–589.).
Abbreviations: AJCC: American Joint Committee on Cancer; SEER: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results