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. 2009 Jun 19;28(1):86.
doi: 10.1186/1756-9966-28-86.

Incidence of breast cancer in Italy: mastectomies and quadrantectomies performed between 2000 and 2005

Prisco Piscitelli  1 , Antonio Santoriello, Franco M Buonaguro, Massimo Di Maio, Giovanni Iolascon, Francesca Gimigliano, Alessandra Marinelli, Alessandro Distante, Giuseppe Serravezza, Emiliano Sordi, Katia Cagossi, Fabrizio Artioli, Michele Santangelo, Alfredo Fucito, Raffaele Gimigliano, Maria Luisa Brandi, Massimo Crespi, Antonio Giordano; CROM; Human Health Foundation Study Group
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Incidence of breast cancer in Italy: mastectomies and quadrantectomies performed between 2000 and 2005

Prisco Piscitelli et al. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. .

Abstract

Objectives: We aimed to determine the incidence of women's breast cancer in Italy without using statistical approximations.

Methods: We analyzed the national hospitalizations database at the Ministry of Health to calculate the number of major surgeries in Italian women (mastectomies and quadrantectomies) due to breast cancer between 2000 and 2005, overall and by age groups (<44, 45-64, 65-74 and >or= 75 years old).

Results: Over the six years examined, an overall number of 100,745 mastectomies and 168,147 quadrantectomies were performed. A total of 41,608 major surgeries due to breast cancer were performed in the year 2000 and this number rose to 47,200 in 2005, with a 13.4% increase over six years.

Conclusion: by analyzing the hospitalizations database concerning major breast surgery, incidence of breast cancer in Italy was found to be 26.5% higher than the official estimations which have been computed using statistical models (namely 47,200 vs. 37,300 cases in year 2005).

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