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Manitoba conducts fewer mastectomies, has low wait times: report
A comprehensive new report about breast-cancer treatments and diagnoses shows that Manitoba has one of the country’s lowest percentages of mastectomies in the ratio of mastectomies versus lumpectomies followed by radiation.
The joint study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer showed a wide variety of province-by-province rates for the two treatments.
In Manitoba, 36 per cent of breast-cancer surgeries are mastectomies, based on data between 2007 and 2009.
The Canada-wide range was 26.5 per cent in Quebec to 68.7 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Both treatments are considered equally effective when it comes to survival rates, which have show a general improvement of about five per cent — from 82 to 87 per cent — since 1992-94.
The study also showed that mastectomies jumped to more than 50 per cent, to as high as 57.1 per cent when proximity to treatment centres became 95 minutes or longer.
Other areas of the study showed that Manitoba was among the provinces with the lowest wait times for screening and resolution of outcomes after diagnosis.
Elsewhere in the study, in examining breast-cancer risk factors and using body-mass index, it shows that Manitoba is one of five provinces/territories which has more than 50 per cent of its women aged 18 and older classified as overweight or obese in 2010.
Nunavut is highest on the list at 64.1 per cent combined, with Manitoba at No. 5 at 52.8. B.C. has the lowest mark at 33.7 per cent, followed by Alberta at 42.3 per cent.
The Canadian average in this area is 43.7 per cent.
The 2005 Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy has set a target of 65 per cent of women to be of "normal" weight by 2015.
The number was estimated to be 53 per cent in 2010.
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