(Paul McClure/ New Atlas) — A new UK study has found that, compared to 20 years ago, women diagnosed today with early invasive breast cancer and initially treated with surgery are 66% less likely to die from the disease.
Globally, more than two million women are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer each year. For most, it’s their first cancer diagnosis. There are many types of breast cancer, and tumors can be invasive or non-invasive. Non-invasive breast cancer remains contained in the milk ducts or lobules, whereas invasive breast cancer has spread beyond the ducts to the surrounding tissues.
To inform treatment decisions and help women understand their disease requires large-scale population studies examining patient- and cancer-related factors on breast cancer mortality. Now, new research has done just that.
Conducted by researchers from Oxford Population Health at the University of Oxford, UK, the study, which took 10 years to complete, is the first to show long-term outcomes in all women registered in England with early invasive breast cancer as their first cancer and who were treated initially with surgery. (…)