Rate at which deaths from breast cancer have been falling each year: 1.9%. The five-year survival rate has increased from just under 75% in 1980 to 90.6% in 2006. Most breast cancers are not terribly aggressive and fast growing, like melanoma or pancreatic cancer, says Leslie Montgomery, MD, director of the Breast Cancer Program at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care in New York City. Even when it has spread, with all the new medication its possible to buy years of time for a woman. The protocol for treating breast cancer changes so quickly, she says, that a woman being diagnosed with breast cancer today has a much better chance of survival than a woman diagnosed even a decade ago.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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