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Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Patients' refusal of surgery strongly impairs breast cancer survival
September 15th, 2005
Patients' refusal of surgery strongly impairs breast cancer survival. In a recent report published in the journal Annals Of Surgery, researchers in Switzerland conducted a study "To compare patient and tumor characteristics and survival between women who refused and women who accepted surgery for breast cancer. Surgery represents the central component of curative breast cancer treatment, but some women decide not to undergo surgery. Recent studies on the prognosis of non operated breast cancer are nonexistent. This study included all 5339 patients aged <80 years with nonmetastatic breast cancer recorded at the Geneva Cancer Registry between 1975 and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-15)
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