Therapy Advances Increase Survival

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CHICAGO - Research offers hopeful news to women whose breast cancers are typically more difficult to treat: Modern chemotherapy means more of them will survive than previously thought.

The latest findings offer more evidence that a tumor's "personality characteristics" are more important than size and how much the cancer has spread. Often the key is whether the tumor is fueled by the hormone estrogen.

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Therapy Advances Increase Survival

Increasingly, doctors are considering that when recommending treatment.

About two-thirds of breast can...

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