title: [Bilateral breast cancer].
abstract: Bilateral breast cancer has a cumulative incidence of 3-13% in patients with primary breast cancer, and the majority of these lesions are metachronous. The synchronous and metachronous bilateral breast cancer have at greater risk for distant metastasis than unilateral breast cancer. There was no difference in overall survival when comparing metachronous and synchronous bilateral patients to those with unilateral disease.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Trapianti d'Organo e Tecnologie Avanzate, Cattedra di Chirurgia Oncologica, Università degli Studi, Catania.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Amodeo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caglià
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gandolfo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veroux
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Donati
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cavallaro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tracia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D016019:Survival Analysis