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Breast Cancer
Cancer detected by screening mammography associated with less toxic therapy
January 20th, 2005
Women who have their breast cancers detected by physical examinations are at least twice as likely to undergo toxic treatments than those who have their cancer detected by mammography, regardless of the age of the woman, a new study shows. Records of 992 women with invasive breast cancer were reviewed; 460 of them had their cancer detected on screening mammography and 532 on physical examination, said the lead author of the study, Richard J. Barth, Jr., MD, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Overall, patients whose cancer was detected at physical examination were three times more...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-20)
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