Haverford School lax checks for cancer
Evelyn Schwartz, Director of Development of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at Penn Medicine, accepts a $12,000 donation from the Checking for Cancer Foundation.
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Haverford School lax checks for cancer
Benefits of breast cancer screening outweigh the harms, study shows
Benefits of breast cancer screening outweigh the harms, study shows
Routine breast cancer screening saves the lives of two women for every one who receives unnecessary treatment, a study suggests today.
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Previous studies have shown that younger breast cancer patients consistently have poorer outcomes than patients who develop the disease later in life, which can translate into lower rates of overall survival. While the reason for this is not known, it is suggested that breast cancer in younger patients is more biologically aggressive.
Researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sought to determine which form of breast cancer treatment – breast-conserving therapy, mastectomy alone or mastectomy with adjuvant radiation – better benefits younger women with either Stage I or Stage II breast cancer.