Breast Cancer
New findings from National Hospital Organization in the area of breast cancer published
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 15th, 2009
"As most recurrences in patients with breast cancer occur in the first 5 years after surgery, recurrences more than 10 years after surgery are not very frequent, and their recurrent pattern and prognosis have not been thoroughly analyzed in the literature. A review of 1,114 patients with breast carcinoma surgically treated between January 1980 and December 1993 was carried out," researchers in Beppu, Japan report.
"There were 284 (25.5%) patients with recurrence. Out of these 284 patients, 12 (4.4%) whose recurrence occurred more than 10 years after surgery were entered in this study. No prognostic factors that specifically predicted recurrence more than 10 years after...
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