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Breast Cancer
"Real life" study clarifies risk of recurrence for high-risk patients
June 30th, 2005
High-risk breast cancer patients do not appear to have a higher risk of relapse than the general breast cancer population during the first 2 years after diagnosis, unless their cancer has spread to more than 10 axillary lymph nodes, researchers reported at the 2nd ESMO Scientific & Educational Conference (ESEC) in Budapest, Hungary. Marina Cazzaniga from Treviglio Hospital, Italy, and colleagues in the NORA study, have been studying 3,500 patients being treated for breast cancer. They identified five groups of patients considered at high risk and analyzed their rate of relapse: 1) patients whose tumors were estrogen receptor positive/progesterone...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-30)
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