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Breast Cancer
Study confirms conservation surgery is safe for BRCA cancers
April 6th, 2004
Women who carry the BRCA breast cancer genes can safely be offered breast conservation surgery with radiotherapy provided they are followed up for the rest of their lives. That is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the Institut Curie in Paris after studying a group of high-risk patients for a median 9 years after surgery for breast cancer. They found that these women, who were carrying either the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 mutation, had no higher rate of recurrence than patients in the control arm of the study with no family history of the disease. Youlia Kirova told a news briefing at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference that the only factor...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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