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This article needs reading very carefully.
The figures quoted
"172 (5%) of the women developed an isolated local or regional recurrence.
1182 (33%) of the women experienced another event (distant metastasis, death, or non-isolated local or regional recurrence)."
come from the WHOLE population of 3062, and so does not tell you very much, (except being rather depressing) and I did not see any reference to time frame.
I also do not understand the following comment in the light of a claim of an 80% increase. I presume the first line refers to the outecome of younger v older patients - an accepted fact younger women fare worse, and the second suggests that the type of surgery Masectomey v BCT I guess made no difference.
"Compared to women who were over the age of 50 at the time of diagnosis, women age 35 or younger had a more than two-fold increase in risk of isolated local or regional recurrence.
Young age was also linked with an increased risk of distant metastases, death, or non-isolated local or regional recurrence. Type of surgery, however, was not linked with these outcomes."
DEFINATELY and example of an article that is a best unclear. My first reading was that the tome was masectomy much better than BCT but closer reading suggests that the findings may well be in line with other trials which conclude not a lot of difference.
RB
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