Younger breast cancer patients have greater chance of recurrence

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 08:21 in Health & Medicine

Breast cancer patients 35 years old and younger have higher rates of their cancer returning after treatment than older women patients with the same stage of cancer, and their risk of recurrence is greatly impacted by the type of treatment they received, according to a 1 March study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...

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