[Survival of women with breast cancer, of a city in the south of Brazil].

Rev Bras Enferm

Instituto Superior e Centro Educacional Luterano Bom Jesus. Policlínica do Boa Vista, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde. Joinville-SC, Brasil.

Published: December 2013

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  • A retrospective cohort study analyzed the survival of 655 breast cancer patients in Joinville, Brazil, using Kaplan-Meier and Cox models.
  • The study found significant differences in survival rates based on cancer staging, highlighted by the Log-rank Test results.
  • The risk of death increased with more advanced stages, showing rates of 3.26 for stage I/II, 15.40 for I/III, and 25.51 for I/IV, confirming that staging is crucial for understanding survival outcomes in breast cancer.

Article Abstract

A retrospective cohort study was carried out aiming to evaluate the survival of 655 women with breast cancer, seen in the Single Health System, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. For the analysis of survival, the method of Kaplan-Meier and Cox model was applied. The survival according to the staging of women was significantly different in accordance with the results of the test of Log-rank Test. The rate of risk of instantaneous death between the stages I/II, I/III and I/IV was 3.26, 15.40 and 25.51, respectively. These findings are in consonance with literature data, and indicate that the staging is a variable that explains the differences in the survival among women with breast cancer.

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