TY  - JOUR
T1  - BReast cancer mortality and age at diagnosis
AU  - Biau DJ, Porcher R
Y1  - 2012/05/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.3613
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2023
EP  - 2024
VL  - 307
IS  - 19
N2  - 
Classifying patients on the basis of whether there was evidence of breast cancer at the time of their death may be misleading. For instance, if an 80-year-old woman with a known pulmonary metastasis dies, her death will be attributed to breast cancer. However, without a postmortem examination, it is not possible to determine the exact cause of death, which may be due to a non–disease-specific condition such as unstable coronary artery disease. If a 36-year-old woman with breast cancer dies in a motor vehicle crash, it will be impossible without a postmortem examination to definitively determine whether the death is due to the motor vehicle crash or to a complication of her malignancy, such as a pulmonary tumor embolism.2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.3613
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3613
ER  -