Study: Breast Cancer Can Return 15 Years After Treatment Ends
(Undated) — A new study reports breast cancer can come back as many as 15 years after successful treatment. British researchers studied more than 60-thousand women for 20 years. The scientists found cancer that had been dormant was most likely to return in women with larger tumors and cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes. The most common form of breast cancer recurred for 40-percent of women in that group. Women with small, low-grade cancers and no spread to the lymph nodes had only a ten-percent chance of cancer recurrence. The study is published in the latest edition of the “New England Journal of Medicine.”
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