This issue of Breast Care covers modern therapeutic concepts of early breast cancer – after all, all of us in the clinical and research breast oncology community work hard in order to ensure progress for our patients in this curable stage of the disease – following the principle ‘the optimal way to cure is to avoid and prevent relapse and generalization’. Definitely, we are making progress: At least in central Europe, of all women diagnosed with breast cancer in the year 2014, more than 75% will die from something else (which for the breast oncologist is the – somewhat artificial – definition of cure from breast cancer).
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