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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
kOBCS
©
: a novel software calculator program of the Objective Breast Cosmesis Scale (OBCS)
Breast Cancer, Volume 27, No. 2, Year 2020
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Description
Purpose: The Objective Breast Cosmesis Scale (OBCS) is an objective method that documents the aesthetic changes in breast cancer patients. This work evaluates the kOBCS© software (http://www.kobcs.info) which simplifies the estimation of the OBCS values. Methods: Five schematic drawings were photographed and imported into the kOBCS©. Thirty photos of breast cancer patients were imported into kOBCS©; 20 users (experts and non-experts) evaluated the photographs on two different settings. Subjective evaluation was performed using the Harvard breast cosmesis scale. Results: There was a highly significant correlation between the OBCS values based on hand measurements and the values estimated by kOBCS© (r = 0.997, P < 0.001). Agreement among the users using the kOBCS© was strong with high statistical significance (ICC = 0.846, P < 0.001, 95% CI 0.774–0.910, Cronbach’s alpha = 0.991). Results of the subjective analyses and mean OBCS values as estimated by kOBCS© correlated significantly (r = 0.961, P < 0.001). Conclusions: The kOBCS© is a reliable and reproducible easy-to-use software for reporting breast cosmesis following breast-conserving therapy.
Authors & Co-Authors
Soror, Tamer
Germany, Berlin
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Egypt, Giza
Cairo University
Lancellotta, Valentina
Italy, Perugia
Università Degli Studi Di Perugia
Kovacs, Gyoergy
Germany, Lubeck
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-holstein Campus Lübeck
Lanzotti, Vito
Italy, Rome
Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Campus Di Roma
Tagliaferri, Luca
Italy, Rome
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs
Casà, Calogero
Italy, Rome
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Irccs
Aristei, Cynthia
Germany, Lubeck
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-holstein Campus Lübeck
Barberini, Francesco
Italy, Perugia
Università Degli Studi Di Perugia
Mahmoud, Mohamed
Italy, Perugia
Università Degli Studi Di Perugia
Badakhshi, Harun R.
Germany, Berlin
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Statistics
Citations: 12
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s12282-019-01006-w
ISSN:
13406868
e-ISSN:
18804233
Research Areas
Cancer