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Breast Cancer
Reports outline breast cancer research from Mayo Clinic
November 13th, 2008
"Women with triple-negative (TN) breast cancer are at increased risk of distant metastases and have reduced survival versus other breast cancer patients. Relative survival of women with TN breast cancer who develop brain metastases is unknown," scientists in the United States report. "Patients with breast cancer who developed brain metastases at our institution from 1993 to 2006 were reviewed. Four survival time intervals were compared in patients with TN disease and those with non-TN disease: initial diagnosis to distant metastases, distant metastases to brain metastases, brain metastases to death, and overall diagnosis to death. One hundred and eighteen patients were...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-11-13)
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