Anderson William F, Schairer Catherine, Chen Bingshu E, Hance Kenneth W, Levine Paul H
DHHS/NIH/NCI/DCP, Rockville, MD 20852-7244, USA.
Breast Dis. 2005;22:9-23. doi: 10.3233/bd-2006-22103.
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer with unknown etiology and generally poor outcome. It is characterized by diffuse edema (peau d'orange) and redness (erythema), although either the disease itself or case definitions have varied over time and place, confounding temporal trends and geographic variations. In this review, we discuss case definitions for IBC and its clinical characteristics; describe its geographic variation, age and racial distribution, incidence and survival patterns, and summarize the very limited information on its epidemiologic risk factors. We also incorporate emerging data from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
炎性乳腺癌(IBC)是一种罕见且侵袭性强的乳腺癌,病因不明,总体预后较差。其特征为弥漫性水肿(橘皮样变)和发红(红斑),尽管疾病本身或病例定义随时间和地点有所不同,这使得时间趋势和地理差异变得复杂。在本综述中,我们讨论了炎性乳腺癌的病例定义及其临床特征;描述了其地理差异、年龄和种族分布、发病率和生存模式,并总结了关于其流行病学危险因素的非常有限的信息。我们还纳入了美国国立癌症研究所(NCI)监测、流行病学和最终结果(SEER)计划的新数据。