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Consumer summaries of research
The summaries below provide an easily understood reference for patients and health consumers on the various research projects using BQA data over the years.
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The BQA encourages research and many projects have been completed since the audit started in 1998. Readers should note the publication year of each article as some are now dated and more up-to-date advice or information should be sought, particularly in reference to treatment guidelines.
Extent to which treatment is following clinical guidelines
- Systemic breast cancer treatment in Australia: are recommendations being followed? (2021)
- How is DCIS being treated in Australia and New Zealand (2021)
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy should be offered to more patients in Australia (2019)
- Choice for initial axillary surgery (2015)
- Further axillary surgery after sentinel node biopsy (2013)
- Clinical impact of the Z-0011 Trial (2013)
- Treating invasive female breast cancer by mastectomy (2013)
- National guidelines for sentinel node biopsy in Australia (2012)
- Declining recommended treatments for early invasive breast cancer (2012)
- The use of Trastuzumab in Australia and New Zealand (2012)
- Ductal carcinoma in situ and the Van Nuys Prognostic Index (2012)
- Access to breast care nurses for surgeons in Australia and New Zealand (2010)
- Have clinical guidelines for treating breast cancer changed practice? (2008)
- Use of multidisciplinary care teams by breast surgeons in Australia and New Zealand (2008)
- Management of ductal carcinoma in situ in Australia and New Zealand (2007)
Breast cancer outcomes
- Is your mammogram-detected cancer being overtreated (2018)
- Survival from invasive breast cancer in New Zealand women (2015)
- Differences in breast cancer and survival between Maori, Pacific and other New Zealand women (2015)
- Factors associated with risk of death from breast cancer (2012)
- Is age a factor in survival from breast cancer? (2012)
- Does having cancer in both breasts at the same time affect survival? (2012)
- Gaining survival information on National Breast Cancer Audit patients (2010)
Treatment by location
Treatment by age, gender or ethnicity
- Breast cancer in Australian Chinese women (2020)
- Male breast cancer in Australia (2020)
- Does surgical treatment for breast cancer differ with patient age? (2010)
- Treatment of males with early breast cancer in Australia and New Zealand (2009)
- Surgical treatment of younger patients with breast cancer in Australia and New Zealand (2008)