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Breast Cancer
Substantial 15-year survival gains from standard treatments
June 2nd, 2005
The types of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy that have long been used to help prevent breast cancer recurrence have much greater effects on 15-year than on 5-year survival, data analysis shows. This extra effect is one of the main reasons why breast cancer death rates have been falling rapidly ever since the early 1990s in the U.K., the U.S., and some other countries, stated the authors in the May 12, 2005, issue of The Lancet. In early breast cancer, surgery (or surgery and radiotherapy) can appear to remove all traces of the disease, but undetected deposits of cancer cells may remain that could, over the next 5, 10, or 15 years, develop...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-02)
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