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01-01-2012 | Special Ariticle
Trends in local therapy application for early breast cancer patients in the Japanese Breast Cancer Society Breast Cancer Registry during 2004–2009
Authors:
Shigehira Saji, Masahiro Hiraoka, Yutaka Tokuda, Naohito Fukui, Tadashi Ikeda
Published in:
Breast Cancer
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Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
The Japanese Breast Cancer Society (JBCS) has been accumulating breast cancer patient data since 1975, reaching a total of 188,265 cases over 29 years. However, the recent increase of breast cancer incidence in Japan made it impossible for us to maintain the same data pool system for further analysis of trends in the disease. Therefore, the JBCS launched a new patient registration system in 2004, including 147,192 cases during the period 2004–2009. …