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Breast Cancer
Cause-specific survival of patients with inflammatory breast cancer trended
January 26th, 2006
The cause-specific survival of patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) was trended. According to a study from Canada, "IBC had been perceived to have a poor prognosis. Oncologists were not enthusiastic in the past to give aggressive treatment." "Single institution studies tend to have small patient numbers and limited years of follow-up. Most studies do not report 10-, 15- or 20-year results. Data was obtained from the population-based database of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the National Cancer Institute from 1975-1995 using SEER*Stat5.0 software. This period of 21 years was divided into 7 periods of 3 years...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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