Data Strateg Benchmarks. 1999 May;3(5):77-80, 61.
Data Library: Breast cancer survival rates are going up, largely due to early detection and diagnosis. Surgery remains a mainstay of treatment, most often by a modified radical mastectomy but increasingly by the less drastic partial mastectomy, or lumpectomy. This MetLife analysis of charges and utilization for radical and partial mastectomy reveals some noteworthy geographic variations.
乳腺癌生存率正在上升，这主要归功于早期发现和诊断。手术仍然是主要的治疗手段，大多数情况下采用改良根治性乳房切除术，但越来越多地采用创伤较小的部分乳房切除术，即乳房肿瘤切除术。大都会人寿保险公司对根治性和部分乳房切除术的费用及使用情况进行的分析揭示了一些值得注意的地域差异。
