title: [Epidemiological basis for the organization of after care in female breast cancer in the capital of East Germany-Berlin in the period from 1968 to 1980].
abstract: The basis for a scientific aftercare are such characteristics as recurrence and metastasis rates, lethality classified according to age-groups and duration of observation. Comparable data like 5-years-lethality by age-groups in 1968 and 1973 (female patients with cancer of the breast diagnosed in the capital of the G.D.R., Berlin), causes of death, cumulative relative survival rates, excess mortality are of importance for the follow-up intensity directed to this group of patients by the cancer centre, the general-practitioner and the out-patient oncological department. The most important task will still be early diagnosis of malignant tumours, because detection of curable stages will have better results and such patients need less intensive aftercare.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001604:Berlin; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Epidemiologische Grundlagen für die Organisation der Nachbetreuung beim Mammakarzinom der Frau in der Hauptstadt der DDR-Berlin in der Periode 1968 bis 1980.