No association between breast pain and breast cancer: a prospective cohort study of 10 830 symptomatic women presenting to a breast cancer diagnostic clinic

Women with breast pain constitute >20% of breast clinic attendees.To investigate breast cancer incidence in women presenting with breast pain and establish the health economics of referring women with breast pain to secondary care.A prospective cohort study of all consecutive women referred to a breast diagnostic clinic over 12 months.Women were categorised by presentation into four distinct clinical groups and cancer incidence investigated.Of...