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TL;DR: This multicenter, cross-sectional, non-interventional study conducted on new and previously diagnosed BC cases applied to 28 medical oncology outpatient clinics between 2012 and 2015 collected demographic, diagnostic, treatment, and outcome information about Turkish patients with breast cancer.
Abstract: Background: The aim of this registry was to collect demographic, diagnostic, treatment, and outcome information about Turkish patients with breast cancer (BC). Methods: It was designed as a multicenter, cross-sectional, non-interventional study conducted on new and previously diagnosed BC cases applied to 28 medical oncology outpatient clinics between 2012 and 2015. A total of 16841 male (n = 153) and female (n = 16688) patients > 18 years were included. Results: Mean age of BC patients was 52.0±11.5 years. Among women, 53.7% were postmenopausal, and 24.4% were receiving hormone replacement (HRT) and/or oral contraceptive therapies (OCT). At time of diagnosis, 18.2% of patients presented with Stage 1, 48.5% with Stage 2, 25.5% with Stage 3, and 7.9% with Stage 4 BC. In 79,8% of the patients histopathology was invasive ductal carcinoma. Estrogen (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) were positive in 74.7%, and 69.4% of patients, respectively. Diagnostic immunohistochemistry (IHC) was performed in 90.4% of p...

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