title: Secondary cancer rates following breast cancer diagnosis.
abstract: Life table analysis and other mortality methods apply well to end points other than mortality. This paper demonstrates the application of mortality experience methodology to the recurrence of breast cancer and/or new primaries in women previously diagnosed with primary breast cancer. Specific recurrence rates are broken out by duration as well as attributes available at the time of primary breast cancer diagnosis: stage, histology, age band, and year of diagnosis. Use of attained age is demonstrated to control for the effect of aging over long durations. Breast cancer recurrence is shown to drop to a relatively low rate compared with the rate of new primary occurrence.
authors.affiliation: Transamerica Reinsurance, 401 North Tryon Street, Suite 700, Charlotte, NC 28202, USA. david.wesley.md@transamerica.com
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wesley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000473:pathology*; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007352:Insurance, Life; D015993:Life Tables; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D018426:SEER Program; D017211:Treatment Failure