American College of Surgeons Operative Standards and Breast Cancer Outcomes
Crystal D. Taylor, Ton Wang, Alison S. Baskin, Brandy Sinco, Tasha M. Hughes, Daniel J. Boffa, Judy C. Boughey, Lesly A. Dossett · 2024
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Crystal Taylor and seven colleagues published a surgical standards study in two thousand twenty-four using a national cancer database. The American College of Surgeons set operative standards to cut variation in cancer surgery. Two of six standards concern removing enough armpit lymph nodes in breast cancer.
Over one point two million women who had sentinel node biopsy or full node clearance between two thousand twelve and two thousand twenty were analysed. Node counts varied widely between hospitals: one to six for sentinel biopsy, six to twenty-two for clearance. The study measured whether meeting the standards tracked with node yield and positivity rates. Results describe how much practice differs across thirteen hundred facilities. The link between standards and short-term outcomes is the paper's focus.
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| CREATOR | Crystal D. Taylor, Ton Wang, Alison S. Baskin, Brandy Sinco, Tasha M. Hughes, Daniel J. Boffa, Judy C. Boughey, Lesly A. Dossett |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |