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- Title
Epidemiology of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).
- Authors
Anderson, William F; Schairer, Catherine; Chen, Bingshu E; Hance, Kenneth W; Levine, Paul H
- Abstract
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer with unknown etiology and generally poor outcome. It is characterized by diffuse edema (peau d'orange) and redness (erythema), although either the disease itself or case definitions have varied over time and place, confounding temporal trends and geographic variations. In this review, we discuss case definitions for IBC and its clinical characteristics; describe its geographic variation, age and racial distribution, incidence and survival patterns, and summarize the very limited information on its epidemiologic risk factors. We also incorporate emerging data from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
- Publication
Breast disease, 2005, Vol 22, p9
- ISSN
0888-6008
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3233/bd-2006-22103