Breast Cancer (Treatment)

Radiation Reduces Recurrence in Early Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 23rd, 1996

Women with early stage breast cancer who have radiation after surgery are less likely to have a recurrence than those who do not. There is no difference, however, in overall survival.

The study of 837 women published in the November 18, 1996, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute updated research that followed the patients for nearly four years. They have been followed now for a median of 7.6 years.

The study of women who had early breast cancer with no lymph node involvement was conducted by Dr. Roy Clark and colleagues, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group in Canada. Three times as many women who did not have radiation had recurrent...

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