Nearly half of women with advanced breast cancer in the US not receiving life-saving treatment

Monday, June 27, 2011 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

Forty-five percent of women with advanced breast cancer in the U.S. did not receive postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) despite the publication of evidence-based guidelines outlining PMRT as a potentially lifesaving treatment, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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