Prevalence of silent breast cancer in autopsy specimensstudy of the disease held by image-guided biopsies
- SIDIROPOULOU, ZACHAROULA
- Pedro Gascón Vilaplana Director
Defence university: Universitat de Barcelona
Fecha de defensa: 17 September 2021
- Paloma Bragado Domingo Chair
- Christos Markopoulos Secretary
- Pedro L Fernandez Ruiz Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
This study aimed to quantify the actual number of breast cancer present in both genders by determining the prevalence of silent breast cancer in corpses. We quantified the imaging-identified cancers that were not clinically manifested, with the thesis hypothesis that the natural reservoir of silent breast cancer is greater than the actual incidence of the disease, a hypothesis that was not confirmed.