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Identifying tests related to breast cancer care in claims data. The breast journal Franc, B. L., Thombley, R., Luo, Y., Boscardin, W. J., Rugo, H. S., Seidenwurm, D., Dudley, R. A. 2019

Abstract

To develop a method for calculating rates of testing for breast cancer recurrence in patients who have already undergone initial treatment for breast cancer, we calculated rates in a cohort of Medicare breast cancer patients and an age-matched noncancer cohort. We first used only tests with claims including diagnosis codes indicating invasive breast cancer and then used all tests regardless of diagnosis code. For each method, we calculated testing rates in the breast cancer cohort above the background rate in the noncancer population. The two methods provided similar estimates of testing prevalence and frequency, with exception of prevalence of CT.

View details for DOI 10.1111/tbj.13691

View details for PubMedID 31736191