Underuse of long-term routine hospital follow-up care in patients with a history of breast cancer?

BMC Cancer

Table 2 Utilization of breast cancer follow-up care in breast cancer survivors

Time after treatment (years)	Disease free Patients*	Patients used hospital follow-up visit		Patients used yearly mammography
	n	n	%	n	%
1	662	639	96.5	282	44.1
2	634	587	92.6	412	70.2
3	613	548	89.4	368	67.2
4	590	503	85.3	331	65.8
5	570	478	83.9	320	66.9
6	538	447	83.1	277	62.0
7	516	400	77.5	246	61.5
8	470	340	72.3	208	61.2
9	425	300	70.6	194	57.1
10	361	240	66.5	143	59.6

* Patients who have a loco-regional recurrence or contra-lateral breast cancer were excluded. Patients who have distant metastasis were excluded.

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