Breast cancer survival rates raised with chemo and radio therapies combined

Main Category: Breast Cancer
Article Date: 19 Jan 2005 - 15:00 PDT

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A woman's chances of survival after breast cancer surgery are significantly improved if she undergoes a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, say researchers from the University of British Columbia. Apparently, radiation therapy alone does not improve survival rates.

You can read about this trial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The researchers monitored 318 women. All of them were post menopausal. They had all been treated with modified radical mastectomy and lymph node removal. Some of the women had just radiotherapy, others had just chemotherapy, while others had a combination of both.

They found that survival rates for the women who had had a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy was substantially higher.

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