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Compliance with consensus recommendations for systemic therapy is associated with improved survival of women with node-negative breast cancerNicole Hébert-Croteau
Direction des Systèmes de Soins et Services, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, Québec H2J 3G8, Canada
J Clin Oncol 22:3685-93. 2004..We evaluated if compliance with guidelines for systemic adjuvant treatment is associated with improved survival of women with node-negative breast cancer...
Provider's volume and quality of breast cancer detection and treatmentNicole Hébert-Croteau
Direction des Systèmes de Soins et Services, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190 Boul Crémazie Est, Bureau 2 24, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Breast Cancer Res Treat 105:117-32. 2007..Although the mechanisms of these associations still need to be clarified, large provider's volume in screening mammography or breast cancer treatment is often related to the quality of medical interventions...
Investigating the correlation between hospital of primary treatment and the survival of women with breast cancerNicole Hébert-Croteau
Direction des Systèmes de Soins et Services, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cancer 104:1343-8. 2005..To understand the relation between hospital of initial treatment and the survival of women with breast cancer, the authors investigated the characteristics of the treatment center that were related most to outcome...
A population-based study of the impact of delaying radiotherapy after conservative surgery for breast cancerNicole Hébert-Croteau
Direction des Systèmes de Soins et Services, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Canada
Breast Cancer Res Treat 88:187-96. 2004..Practice guidelines have set a maximum waiting time to radiation therapy for breast cancer. We evaluated if delaying radiotherapy resulted in worse outcomes in a large cohort of women with node-negative breast cancer...
Volume of screening mammography and performance in the Quebec population-based Breast Cancer Screening ProgramIsabelle Théberge
Direction des Systèmes de Soins et Services, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Sainte Foy, Que
CMAJ 172:195-9. 2005..We examined the relation of screening-mammography volume to rates of breast cancer detection and false-positive readings in the PQDCS...
Vitamin D and calcium intakes from food or supplements and mammographic breast densitySylvie Bérubé
Unité de recherche en santé des populations, Hôpital St Sacrement du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, 1050 Chemin Sainte Foy, Quebec, Quebec, Canada G1S 4L8
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1653-9. 2005..This study evaluates the association of vitamin D and calcium, from food and/or supplements, to breast density in premenopausal and postmenopausal women separately...
Validity of information obtained from a method for estimating cancer costs from the perspective of patients and caregiversSophie Lauzier
Unité de Recherche en Santé des Populations URESP, Centre de recherche FRSQ du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, 1050 Chemin Sainte Foy, Quebec, QC G1S 4L8, Canada
Qual Life Res 19:177-89. 2010..We describe a method we developed for estimating cancer costs from the perspective of patients and caregivers and evidence supporting validity of estimates obtained...
Wage losses in the year after breast cancer: extent and determinants among Canadian womenSophie Lauzier
Unité de recherche en santé des populations, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Quebec, Canada
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:321-32. 2008..We evaluated wage losses, their determinants, and the associations between wage losses and changes for the worse in the family's financial situation among Canadian women over the first 12 months after diagnosis of early breast cancer...
Insulin-like growth factor-I, IGF-binding protein-3, and mammographic breast densityCaroline Diorio
, , , 1050 Chemin Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Quebec, Canada G1S 4L8
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1065-73. 2005..They provide additional support for the idea that, among premenopausal women, these growth factors may affect breast cancer risk, at least in part, through their influence on breast tissue morphology as reflected on mammogram...
Quantitative exploration of possible reasons for the recent improvement in breast cancer survivalSylvie Bérubé
Unité de recherche en santé des populations, Hôpital St Sacrement du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, 1050 Chemin Sainte Foy, Quebec, QC, Canada, G1S 4L8
Breast Cancer Res Treat 106:419-31. 2007..This study attempts to explain observed trends in breast cancer survival with special attention given to the role of improvements in early detection and treatment...
Influence of insulin-like growth factors on the strength of the relation of vitamin D and calcium intakes to mammographic breast densityCaroline Diorio
, , , Canada
Cancer Res 66:588-97. 2006..Our findings suggest that the IGF axis should be taken into account when the effects of vitamin D and calcium on breast density (and perhaps breast cancer risk) are examined at least among premenopausal women...
Conceptualization and sources of costs from breast cancer: findings from patient and caregiver focus groupsSophie Lauzier
Population Health Research Unit, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, , , Canada
Psychooncology 14:351-60. 2005....
