Data collection
Based on the following ABCR eligibility requirements, new patient diagnosis should have:
- No breast cancer history prior to 1st June 2000;
- Been diagnosed with invasive carcinoma, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS);
- Been an Auckland region resident at the time of surgery;
- And been a NZ permanent resident (including Cook Island resident) at diagnosis.
As this is a long-term study, patients are followed-up all their life. If needed, General Practitioners (GPs) may also be contacted.
Use of data
- Clinical data are extracted upon request for research projects, presentations and audit.
- ABCSG extracts data and produces statistics posters regularly.
- ABCR is also the source database of surgical audit dataset being forwarded to the BreastSurgANZ Quality Audit (Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) on behalf of ABCSG member-surgeons.
Find out more about requesting data here.