Comparison of patterns and prognosis among distant metastatic breast cancer patients by age groups: a SEER population-based analysis

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 9254 - 8
• Main Authors: Chen, Meng-Ting, Sun, He-Fen, Zhao, Yang, Fu, Wen-Yan, Yang, Li-Peng, Gao, Shui-Ping, Li, Liang-Dong, Jiang, Hong-lin, Jin, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.08.2017; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/67/1347; 631/67/2324; Adult; Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Bone cancer; Brain cancer; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms - mortality; Breast Neoplasms - pathology; Breast Neoplasms - therapy; Combined Modality Therapy; Epidemiology; Female; Health risk assessment; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Medical prognosis; Metastases; Metastasis; Middle age; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Neoplasm Metastasis; Neoplasm Staging; Population Surveillance; Prognosis; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); SEER Program; Survival; Survival analysis; Treatment Outcome

To investigate the effects of age at diagnosis on metastatic breast cancer and patients’ prognosis, we collected patient data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. We finally identified 4932 eligible metastatic breast cancer patients diagnosed between 2010–2013, inclu...