Outcome of Patients With Breast Cancer Treated in a Private Health Care Institution in Brazil.

Purpose: Middle-income countries like Brazil often have a dichotomous health care system in which patients may be treated in either public or private institutions that differ substantially in terms of level of access to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective, observational study to assess real-world data in 1,230 female patients with breast cancer who were treated in a private health care institution between 2012 and 2016 in Brazil.

Results: Breast cancer in these patients mostly was diagnosed at early (79.