Breast Cancer Leads Mortality Drop in the US and Britian
From the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
1. Through a series of modest gains in breast cancer screening plus advances in endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy breast cancer mortality in women 35-69yrs has been almost halved in the US and Britian.
2. Although each improvement in breast cancer care has added only a small improvement in survival, taken together, the improvement has been remarkable.
3. The data show that chemotherapy is equally effective in women with and without estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.
A. The bottom line is; "If you give effective chemotherapy to women with or without estrogen receptor-positive disease, you'll reduce their mortality by about one third if they are old and by about one half if they are young".
B. Incidentally, the biggest contributor to the declining death rate in women in the US and Britian has been the drop in lung cancer deaths.
C. Women's dealths due to intestinal cancer, uterine cancer, stomach cancer are all going down.