Breast conserving surgery plus radiotherapy is as effective as mastectomy for most women with early breast cancer. This means that, for most women, the chance of the breast cancer spreading to other parts of the body or the chance of dying from breast cancer is the same after either treatment. Ask your doctor about the benefits and risks of these treatments for you.
Breast conserving surgery
Breast conserving surgery is considered an option if: the cancer is small enough compared to the size of your breast so as to: safely remove all the
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Breast conserving treatment
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Every week 730 new breast cancers are diagnosed and 250 women die from breast cancer. Each year 38,000 women are newly diagnosed and 13,100 women die from breast cancer. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in minority ethnic groups in the UK. Breast cancer now affects one woman in 9 during her lifetime in the United Kingdom. Survival rates are improving, on average 74 per cent of women are still alive five years later
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