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Breast Cancer
Long-term outcomes, clinical features of bilateral breast carcinomas presented
December 23rd, 2004
A report from physicians and surgeons at Baskent University, Turkey, presented "the clinical features and long-term outcomes in 43 cases of bilateral breast carcinoma." H.A. Goksel and colleagues wrote in the journal International Surgery, "All the women were diagnosed by a single surgeon who had evaluated 13,443 patients with breast-related complaints over a 40-year period. At the initial cancer diagnosis, 28 patients (65%) were of premenopausal age ({{<=}}46 years; group 1) and 15 (35%) were postmenopausal (>46 years; group 2). "The median interval between initial and subsequent cancer was 24 months (range, 12-288 months) in group 1....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-23)
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