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Audit system on Quality of breast cancer diagnosis and Treatment (QT): Results of quality indicators on screen-detected lesions in Italy, 2011-2012
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- Scopus-Elsevier
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Abstract
- This annual survey, conducted by the Italian group for mammography screening (GISMa), collects individual data on diagnosis and treatment of about 50% of screen-detected, operated lesions in Italy. The 2011-2012 results show good overall quality and an improving trend over time. A number of critical issues have been identified, including waiting times (which have had a worsening trend over the years) and compliance with the recommendation of not performing frozen section examination on small lesions. Pre-operative diagnosis improved constantly over time, but there is still a large variation between Regions and programmes. For almost 90% of screen-detected invasive cancers a sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy was performed on the axilla, avoiding a large number of potentially harmful dissections. On the other hand, potential overuse of SLN dissection for ductal carcinoma in situ, although apparently starting to decline, deserves further investigation. The detailed results have been distributed, among other ways by means of a web-based data-warehouse, to regional and local screening programmes, in order to allow multidisciplinary discussion and identification of the appropriate solutions to any issues documented by the data. The problem of waiting times should be assigned priority. Specialist Breast Units with adequate case volume and enough resources would provide the best setting for making monitoring effective in producing quality improvements with shorter waiting times.
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- Medical Audit
Time Factors
breast cancer screening quality treatment survey, Italy
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
screening
Breast Neoplasms
Middle Aged
Health Surveys
breast cancer
Breast Unit
Italy
Risk Factors
Breast cancer screening quality treatment survey
Axilla
Humans
Mass Screening
Female
screening, QT Breast, breast cancer, Breast Unit
QT Breast
Carcinoma in Situ
Early Detection of Cancer
Mammography
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- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....e257a7d1f62adece7d935c53a9f6bea8