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The prognosis for early-detected breast cancer is now very good

The announcement of a breast cancer diagnosis is always perceived as a shock by the given woman and those around her. Fear of the consequences of treatment, the impact on personal life and, of course, not recovering from it. However, the prognosis of this disease has improved significantly in recent decades, and for many, the ordeal will lead to a happy recovery.

An analysis by a team of British researchers on large national data provides a good insight. Published British Medical Journal It included 512,000 women diagnosed with early breast cancer (ie, a tumor no larger than 5 cm and not spread to more than three lymph nodes) between 1993 and 2020. The authors compared the date of diagnosis and the mortality of the patients five years later. For women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1993 and 1999, the five-year risk of dying…

Source: Le Figaro

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