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- Title
Disparities in Rural Breast Cancer Care: Factors Affecting Choice of Breast Reconstruction in a West Virginia Tertiary Care Hospital.
- Authors
Holliday, Tyler L.; Suggs, Patrick D.; Thompson, Stephanie N.; Richmond, Bryan K.
- Abstract
The decision to pursue immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction (IBR) is not uniform across all groups of women in the United States. We sought to investigate if the challenges of caring for a socioeconomically and geographically challenged rural population affected the incidence of IBR and to identify predictive factors of IBR in this population. Using our institution's cancer registry, we conducted a 10-year review of women with early-stage, unilateral breast cancer who received mastectomy. Demographics, insurance status, comorbidities, and surgeon graduation year were compared for patients receiving IBR versus no reconstruction. Variables with P < 0.05 on univariate analysis were included into a multivariate logistic regression model to determine independent predictors of IBR. From 2006 to 2015, 53/423 (12.5%) patients underwent IBR. On multivariate analysis, three factors independently predicted the decision to undergo IBR: age (P=0.004), insurance type (P=0.034), and use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM, P < 0.001). Our data indicate that age, insurance type, and utilization of CPM influence the decision to pursue reconstruction. Additionally, the rate of IBR was found to be much lower in our West Virginia population than reported nationally, suggesting disparities in the care of women with early-stage, unilateral breast cancer in a rural population, even in a tertiary care environment.
- Subjects
MAMMAPLASTY; BREAST cancer treatment; MASTECTOMY; TERTIARY care; CHARLESTON Area Medical Center
- Publication
American Surgeon, 2017, Vol 83, Issue 7, p717
- ISSN
0003-1348
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000313481708300727