Metastatic Breast Cancer in Austria

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. In Austria, this diagnosis is made more than 5000 times a year (STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Austrian Cancer Registry, as of 24.09.2012). Of these, already 5% to 10% have distant metastases at the time of initial diagnosis, and up to 30% of the node-negative tumours and up to 70% of the node-positive tumours metastasise at a later date. Metastatic breast cancer has not been systematically assessed in Austria to date. This medical registry of the AGMT is thus the first Austrian-wide standardised documentation of this disease. The aim of the registry is to answer both epidemiological and therapy-specific questions.

This registry is a prospective and retrospective, multicentre collection of data on patients with metastatic breast cancer in Austria. All tumour characteristics, medical histories and also treatment sequences are documented in anonymised form.