Department of Clinical Radiation Oncology, Ernst Von Bergmann Medical Center, Academic Teaching Hospital of Humboldt University Berlin (Charité), Potsdam, Germany.
Radiation Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Breast Cancer. 2020 Mar;27(2):179-185. doi: 10.1007/s12282-019-01006-w. Epub 2019 Aug 26.
The Objective Breast Cosmesis Scale (OBCS) is an objective method that documents the aesthetic changes in breast cancer patients. This work evaluates the kOBCS software (http://www.kobcs.info) which simplifies the estimation of the OBCS values.
Five schematic drawings were photographed and imported into the kOBCS. Thirty photos of breast cancer patients were imported into kOBCS; 20 users (experts and non-experts) evaluated the photographs on two different settings. Subjective evaluation was performed using the Harvard breast cosmesis scale.
There was a highly significant correlation between the OBCS values based on hand measurements and the values estimated by kOBCS (r = 0.997, P < 0.001). Agreement among the users using the kOBCS was strong with high statistical significance (ICC = 0.846, P < 0.001, 95% CI 0.774-0.910, Cronbach's alpha = 0.991). Results of the subjective analyses and mean OBCS values as estimated by kOBCS correlated significantly (r = 0.961, P < 0.001).
The kOBCS is a reliable and reproducible easy-to-use software for reporting breast cosmesis following breast-conserving therapy.
客观乳房美容量表(OBCS)是一种客观方法,可记录乳腺癌患者的美学变化。本研究评估了简化 OBCS 值评估的 kOBCS 软件(http://www.kobcs.info)。
拍摄了五张示意图并将其导入 kOBCS。将 30 张乳腺癌患者的照片导入 kOBCS;20 名使用者(专家和非专家)在两种不同的设置下对照片进行评估。使用哈佛乳房美容量表进行主观评估。
基于手工测量的 OBCS 值与 kOBCS 估计值之间存在高度显著的相关性(r=0.997,P<0.001)。使用 kOBCS 的用户之间的一致性很强,具有高度统计学意义(ICC=0.846,P<0.001,95%CI 0.774-0.910,Cronbach's alpha=0.991)。主观分析结果和 kOBCS 估计的平均 OBCS 值之间存在显著相关性(r=0.961,P<0.001)。
kOBCS 是一种可靠且可重复的、易于使用的软件,可用于报告保乳治疗后乳房美容效果。