kOBCS©: a novel software calculator program of the Objective Breast Cosmesis Scale (OBCS)

Tamer Soror; Valentina Lancellotta; György Kovács; Vito Lanzotti; Luca Tagliaferri; Calogero Casà; Cynthia Aristei; Francesco Barberini; Mohamed Mahmoud; Harun Badakhshi

doi:10.1007/s12282-019-01006-w

kOBCS^©:a novel software calculator program of the Objective Breast Cosmesis Scale (OBCS)

Tamer Soror^*, Valentina Lancellotta, György Kovács, Vito Lanzotti, Luca Tagliaferri, Calogero Casà, Cynthia Aristei, Francesco Barberini, Mohamed Mahmoud, Harun Badakhshi

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Clinic of Radiotherapy

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Breast Cancer
Volume	27
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	179-185
Number of pages	7
ISSN	1340-6868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-019-01006-w
Publication status	Published - 01.03.2020

Funding

We would like to thank ?d?m Kov?cs from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary for the help in developing the kOBCS?. We would like also to thank Stefano Gentileschi, Giorgia Garganese, Martina Ricci, Calogero Messana, Alida Savelli, Cesare Marino, and Maria-Vittoria Notari for their help in testing the software.

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