Never has there been such a fast and comprehensive level of communication available; access to information in all fields of medicine and to oncology in particular is simple, immediate and affordable. Yet, there are disquieting differences in the quality of health care offered and provided, not only because of the economics involved; in breast cancer, wide variations in treatment strategies are reflected in the morbidity and mortality from this frequent malignancy. At least some differences in outcome are caused by ethnicity, genetics, life style and environmental factors, but more uniformity in optimal, state-of-the-art health care, provided by dedicated multidisciplinary teams, would decrease the undesirable variations in quality of life and survival of breast cancer patients.
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