Objective: The incidence rate and mortality of breast cancer are increasing in Taiwan during recent years. The incidence rate of breast cancer is ranked number one among top ten female cancers, and the mortality of breast cancer is ranked fourth among cause of death for female cancer sufferers. The most common age group for breast cancer is between 40 and 50 years old. Breast cancer causes huge disease burdens for individual, family and society. The breast sonography and fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) are common screening methods for breast cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, little study has focused on the benefits of combing these two methods in clinical application. This study aims to fill such research gap.
Method: This study conducted medical chart reviews and collected 2,776 observations that were under breast sonography and FNAC examination from a regional hospital locates in southern Taiwan. The diagnosis categories for sonography include: malignant, benign, and probably benign tumor. The diagnosis categories for FNAC include: malignant, benign, and suspicious for malignant.
Results: Among 2,776 observations, there were 555 observations (20%) had operation in the studied hospital. The operation results indicated that 205 (36.9%) observations were with malignant status, and 350 (63.1%) observations were with benign status. The diagnosis categories of both sonography and FNAC were significantly associated with the operation results (p<0.001). The FNAC had specificity in 100%, false positive ratio in zero, and positive predictive value in 100%. The Odds ratios for sonography diagnosis categories, age groups, and tumor sizes were OR=4.132 (95%CI: 1.5¡V11.6), OR=31.957 (95% CI: 3.7¡V272.4), OR=0.457 (95% CI: 0.1¡V1.5), respectively. When combining sonography and FNAC in parallel tests, the diagnosis accuracy was 89.2%, sensitivity was 90.2%, specificity was 88.6%, positive predictive value was 82.2%, and negative predictive value was 93.9%. When combining sonography and FNAC in serial testing, the diagnosis accuracy was 88.1%, sensitivity was 67.8%, specificity was 100%, positive predictive value was 100%, and negative predictive value was 84.1%.
Conclusion: Combining sonography and FNAC in breast cancer diagnosis can increase the accuracy, decrease false positive ratio and false negative ratio. These two methods can be conducted during outpatient visit and are fast, accurate and cost-effective tools for breast cancer diagnosis. These two methods particularly appropriate for younger female patients for early screening, early intervention, and may increase the survival rates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0708108-165840 |
| Date | 08 July 2008 |
| Creators | Chen, Pi-Fang |
| Contributors | Wu Jen-Her, Li Ying-Chun, Ker Chen-Guo |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0708108-165840 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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