Selective preoperative magnetic resonance imaging in women with breast cancer: no reduction in the reoperation rate.

Hypothesis: The use of preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging may have an effect on the reoperation rate in women with operable breast cancer.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: University medical center.

Patient navigation and the quality of breast cancer care: an analysis of the breast cancer care quality indicators.

Purpose: Patient navigation programs are initiated to help guide patients through barriers in a complex cancer care system. We sought to analyze the impact of our patient navigator program on the adherence to specific Breast Cancer Care Quality Indicators (BCCQI).

Methods: A retrospective cohort of patients with stage I-III breast cancer seen the calendar year prior to the initiation of the patient navigation program were compared with patients treated in the ensuing two calendar years.

American Society of Clinical Oncology-recommended surveillance and physician specialty among long-term breast cancer survivors.

Background: It is unclear whether it is appropriate to transfer the follow-up care of breast cancer (BrCa) survivors from cancer specialists to primary care physicians (PCPs). This contemporary study compared physician specialty and documented the long-term surveillance of survivors who underwent surgery at an American academic center.

Methods: Women in this institutional review board-approved study underwent breast surgery between 1996 and 2006.