Characterising the ongoing but changing risk of relapse after breast cancer diagnosis improves surveillance planning and patient care
The high incidence of breast cancer and the enduring risk of relapse are major burdens for oncology care. Defining individual recurrence risk profiles would help optimise resource use when managing patients with breast cancer, but population‐based outcomes datasets are unfortunately scarce.
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