Takayuki Iwamoto
   Department   Kawasaki Medical School  Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery,
   Position   Assistant Professor
Article types 原著
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Distinct breast cancer characteristics between screen- and self-detected breast cancers recorded in the Japanese Breast Cancer Registry.
Journal Formal name:Breast cancer research and treatment
Abbreviation:Breast Cancer Res Treat
ISSN code:15737217/01676806
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 156(3),pp.485-494
Author and coauthor Takayuki Iwamoto, Hiraku Kumamaru, Hiroaki Miyata, Ai Tomotaki, Naoki Niikura, Masaaki Kawai, Keisei Anan, Naoki Hayashi, Shinobu Masuda, Koichiro Tsugawa, Kenjiro Aogi, Takanori Ishida, Hideji Masuoka, Kotaro Iijima, Junji Matsuoka, Hiroyoshi Doihara, Takayuki Kinoshita, Seigo Nakamura, Yutaka Tokuda
Authorship Lead author,Corresponding author
Publication date 2016/04
Summary The rate of breast cancer screening for women of all ages in Japan is increasing. However, little is known about the biological differences between screen- and self-detected tumors. We used data from the Japanese Breast Cancer Registry (JBCR), a nationwide registry of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases in Japan, to investigate patients diagnosed between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2011. We compared the clinicopathological features of tumors and assessed yearly trends regarding the proportion of screen-detected cases during the study period. We found that 31.8 % (65,358/205,544) of cancers were detected by screening. Asymptomatic tumors detected by screening (asymptomatic) were more likely to have favorable prognostic features than those that were self-detected (ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS]: 19.8 versus 4.1 %, node-negative: 77.0 versus 61.6 %, and estrogen receptor-positive [ER+]: 82.0 versus 72.9 %, respectively). All these findings were statistically significant (p < .001). The proportion of breast cancers detected by screening among all cases increased from 21.7 % in 2004 to 37.1 % in 2011. During the same time period, the proportion of screen-detected DCIS increased from 41.5 to 66.0 % and that of ER+ cancers increased from 23.2 to 39.7 %. This study demonstrated that low-risk tumors, including DCIS, ER+, and lower TNM stage, account for a substantial proportion of clinical screening-detected cancers. The differences in biological characteristics between screen- and self-detected cancers may account in part for the limited efficacy of breast cancer screening programs aimed at improving breast cancer mortality.
DOI 10.1007/s10549-016-3770-7
PMID 27048417