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 proceduresa
18
17
Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction
1b
118c
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.