Breast Cancer
Follow-up of 100,000 women in over 100 breast cancer trials shows chemotherapy reduces breast cancer mortality by a third
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 22nd, 2011
2011 DEC 22 -- A meta-analysis of 123 randomised trials involving some 100,000 women with breast cancer over the past 40 years shows that, in a wide range of patients, modern chemotherapy regimens reduce breast cancer mortality by around one third compared with no chemotherapy. The findings appear in an article published Online First, and in an upcoming Lancet, by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) at the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, UK.
The researchers studied the trials of various older chemotherapy regimens, finding that standard 1980s chemotherapy regimens could produce a reduction of almost a quarter...
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