Increased fracture rate in women with breast cancer: a review of the hidden risk

BMC Cancer

Table 1 Vertebral fracture incidence in women with breast cancer

	Controls^a (n = 776)	Breast cancer, at diagnosis (n = 352)	Breast cancer, recurrent^c (n = 82)
Follow-up, years ± SD	2.9 ± 0.3	2.1 ± 1.2	1.8 ± 1.4
Prevalence of vertebral fractures, %	5.2	6.0	30.5
Annual fracture incidence, %	0.53	2.72	19.21
Mean number of fractures^b	1.08	1.45	1.69
Mean severity score^b	2.00	2.45	4.10

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
^a 25% were current or past users of hormone-replacement therapy.
^b In patients with a fracture.
^c Excluding bone.
Adapted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Br J Cancer,[1] copyright 1999.

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