Abstract:Background
The lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is 1 in 8 for women in the Netherlands. Breast cancer care in the Netherlands is of high quality, resulting in low 5-year local recurrence rates of 1.5% after breast conserving therapy and 2.7% after mastectomy. Although good endpoints of breast cancer treatment are obtained, it is expected that further improvement of care can be achieved since unexplained variation in a number of treatment aspects was found between hospitals in the Nether… Show more
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