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Spanish Oncology to establish a new standard treatment on breast cancer at early stages

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 23rd, 2010

2010 DEC 23 -- Spanish Oncology has established a new standard treatment for Breast Cancer at early stages thanks to the results of the study 9805/Target 0 funded by Spanish Breast Cancer Research Group (GEICAM) and sponsored by Sanofi Aventis.

More than thousand patients and 50 hospitals participated in the study, whose findings are reported in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Results indicate that docentaxel during quimotherapy reduces the risk of recurrence by 32% in women with high-risk but node-negative, early stage breast cancer when cancer has not spread to lymph nodes.

The aim of the research was to test...

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