Breast Cancer (Therapy)

Radiation Cuts Cancer Deaths

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 20th, 1997

Radiation therapy, which fell out of favor years ago as a treatment for breast cancer, has been found to reduce the risk of death dramatically when combined with conventional chemotherapy, two major studies have found.

A Canadian study found that radiation treatments cut the death rate by 29 percent. In a larger study conducted in Denmark, 54 percent of the women who received radiation therapy were alive after 10 years compared with 45 percent of those who did not get the treatment.

"These are substantial survival advantages," said Dr. Samuel Hellman of the University of Chicago in an editorial in the October 2, 1997, issue of the New England...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-10-20)

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