Our Survival Rates for Breast Cancer Are the Best in British IslesVictoria O'hara
OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcomes of preoperative systemic (neoadjuvant) and postoperative (adjuvant) treatment for patients with breast cancer. DESIGN Meta-analysis of nine randomized trials. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Oncology journals ...
DCIS had been a rare diagnosis, but now it accounts for approximately 20% of screen-diagnosed breast cancers (Moss et al, 1995). When appropriately treated, this non-invasive cancer has an excellent prognosis (10-year RR of death from breast cancer, 2%;Ernster...
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide, after cancers of the breast and large bowel, with approximately 470 000 new cases a year in 2000, some 10% of all cancers in women (Ferlay et al, 2001). Approximately 80% of all cases occur in developing countries, ...
The KSA is a low-risk country for CRC, but the incidence seems to be increasing [3]. Although CRC is less common in the KSA than in its counterpart Gulf Cooperation Council States and in the West, this disease was the second most common malignancy after breast cancer, ranking first among...
Population-based information about cancer occurrence and survival are required to inform clinical practice and research; but for most lymphomas data are lacking. Set within a socio-demographically representative UK population of nearly 4 million, lymphom
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Comparing the case mix and survival of women receiving breast cancer care from one private provider with other London women with breast cancer: pilot data ... Comparing the case mix and survival of women receiving breast cancer care from one private provider with other London women with breast ...
London W1W 7EJ, UK; 4Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK The formation of multidisciplinary breast teams across the UK is intended to concentrate the assessment and treatment of breast cancer into the hands of high volume specialists. ...
We aimed to estimate and externally validate a new UK-specific prognostic model for predicting the long-term risk of a first recurrent event (local recurrence, metastatic recurrence, or second primary breast cancer) in women diagnosed with early breast c