Adopting Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery as the Standard of Care in an Asian Population

Table 1

Correlation analyses comparing between women who had undergone ambulatory surgery and women who had undergone inpatient surgery ().

Characteristics	Ambulatory surgery; ()	Inpatient surgery; ()	value
Median age (years) (range)	53 (20–91)	57 (23–94)	<0.01
Ethnicity			0.29
Chinese	975	414
Malay	107	58
Indian	62	33
Others	63	30
Tumour type			0.18
DCIS	237	60
IDC	857	422
ILC	56	26
Others	57	27
Disease stage			<0.01
DCIS	237	60
I	326	120
II	391	165
III	176	140
IV	25	27
Surgical procedure			<0.01
WLE with or without SLNB	415	27
WLE with ALND	235	61
Mastectomy with or without SLNB	224	80
Mastectomy with ALND	314	232
Bilateral procedures^a	18	17
Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction	1^b	118^c
Disease recurrence			<0.01
Yes	110	89
No	1097	446

WLE: wide local excision; SLNB: sentinel lymph node biopsy; ALND: full axillary lymph node dissection. ^aBilateral mastectomy or WLE. ^bInsertion of implant. ^cAutologous flap reconstruction or insertion of implant.