Better Odds Against Breast Cancer

摘要

The diagnosis of cancer is just about the scariest medical verdict a woman can hear. It shouldn't be. Greater progress has been made against breast cancer than against any other cancer in the past few years. If s true that some 212,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. this year, and 40,000 will die of the disease. But a huge international analysis released in mid-May found that for women in early stages of the disease, treatments now commonly used after surgery can lower the death rate from breast cancer within 15 years of diagnosis to 1 in 10 from 1 in 5.