Procedure | No. of women†‡ | |||||||||
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BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | NB | NS | PEI | NL | Canada | |
Breast-conserving surgery | 3 857 | 2 161 | 574 | 1 247 | 13 180 | 712 | 768 | 98 | 262 | 22 859 |
Mastectomy | 3 279 | 2 724 | 1 076 | 712 | 7 920 | 626 | 965 | 140 | 574 | 18 016 |
Total | 7 136 | 4 885 | 1 650 | 1 959 | 21 100 | 1 338 | 1 733 | 238 | 836 | 40 875 |
Crude§ mastectomy rate, % | 46 | 56 | 65 | 36 | 38 | 47 | 56 | 59 | 69 | 44 |
Adjusted¶ mastectomy rate, % | 45 | 56 | 60 | 35 | 39 | 41 | 52 | 56 | 61 | NA |
Note: NA = not applicable. *Quebec, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut were not included in this analysis. †Unless otherwise stated. ‡Women for whom age, neighbourhood income quintile or travel time could not be calculated (n = 972) were excluded. §Crude rates in this table differ from those presented in Table 2 because of exclusions from the logistic regression. ¶Adjusted for age, neighbourhood income quintile and travel time.