Clinical Risk Factor Analysis for Breast Cancer: 568,000 Subjects Undergoing Breast Cancer Screening in Beijing, 2009

A Clinical Database of Breast Cancer Patients Reveals Distinctive Clinico-pathological Characteristics: a Study From Central China

“…There have been several studies on the demographic, clinical and pathological characteristics of BC in China, which showed many differences in BC features between Chinese patients and those from Western countries, such as younger onset age, higher proportion of negative hormone receptors, and lower incidence. While those studies have been mainly conducted in socioeconomically developed areas of China such as Shanghai (Fan et al, 2009), Hong Kong (Kwong et al, 2011) and Beijing (Pan et al, 2013), there have been no large-scale clinical studies from central China, a vast region of China's hinterland with lower socio-economic developments. Therefore, this work was aimed to study characteristics of BC in Chinese population in central China by analyzing clinico-pathological information of BC from three tertiary referral hospitals from Wuhan Municipality, the largest population hub in the central China.…”