Competing risks analyses for recurrence from primary breast cancer

Competing risks analyses: objectives and approaches

Studies in cardiology often record the time to multiple disease events such as death, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization. Competing risks methods allow for the analysis of the time to the first observed event and the type of the first event. They are also relevant if the time to a specific event is of primary interest but competing events may preclude its occurrence or greatly alter the ...

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Competing Risks Analysis of African American Breast Cancer Patients

Purpose: Recent studies showed that African Americans (AA) breast cancer patients experience lower survival than any other race. The knowledge of cause-specific survival of such patients is necessary to investigate the different factors associated with the disease and support the clinical practice. Methods: The parametric competing risk method is applied to build up the survival models and the ...

Competing risks analysis in mortality estimation for breast cancer patients from independent risk groups.

This study quantifies breast cancer mortality in the presence of competing risks for complex patients. Breast cancer behaves differently in different patient populations, which can have significant implications for patient survival; hence these differences must be considered when making screening and treatment decisions. Mortality estimation for breast cancer patients has been a significant res...

Primary Stromal Sarcoma of Breast with Nodal Recurrence

  Although most breast cancers are adenocarcinomas of the mammary gland, primary breast sarcomas may also arise from mammary gland mesenchymal tissue. Sarcomas represent less than 1% of primary breast neoplasms. These tumors are at high risk of recurrence and are known to have poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the primary treatment for these lesions and axillary lymph node dissection is no...