Keywords:
Performed at one institution, Cross-sectional study, Retrospective, Patterns of Care, Multidisciplinary cancer care, Epidemiology, Screening, Health policy and practice, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, Mammography, Radiographers, Management, Breast
Authors:
D. U. Tari1, F. Palermo1, V. Caserta1, M. Ignozzi1, S. Zullo1, F. Pinto2; 1Caserta/IT, 2NAPLES/IT
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-01786
Purpose
Breast Cancer (BC), with about 52,800 new cases in 2018, represents the most frequent cancer in women of all ages, although with different percentages (41% of total malignancies diagnosed in women aged up to 49 years versus 22% in the elderly) (1).
The anticipation of diagnosis and the application of increasingly effective therapeutic protocols have allowed an improvement of the survival rate for BC, but if in the Center-Northern Italy, this survival rate is around 87%, in Campania (Southern Italy), a 5-year survival rate of 84% was recorded (2) on a 22% adherence rate to the organized screening program (Fig. 1),
To overcome the problems related to a social context in which there is still a lack of knowledge about the importance of early diagnosis (3), from 2015, Caserta Local Health Authority has started a new Diagnostic-Therapeutic Care Pathway (DTCP) for Breast Cancer (4). We report the results of the application of this DTCP to the Department of Diagnostic Senology of the District 12 of Caserta, analyzing its characteristics and the improvement that took place from 2015 to 2018.