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Radiotherapy After Breast Cancer Surgery
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, has been published in The Lancet Medical Journal, a study that will benefit radisi therapy significantly reduced the re-emergence of cancer after breast cancer surgery as much as half a chance in the next 10 years and is able to reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer with a ratio of 1:6 in 15 years.
The study, led by Professor Sarah Darby of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, England, this directly also found no significant difference between women who did or who did not receive radiation with a death rate from diseases other than breast cancer, as had presented in an earlier study said that radiation for breast cancer can harm the heart and increase the risk of women dying from a heart attack. This is because the technique has been increasing over the last few years avoiding exposure of the heart and lungs to radiation, so no need for such worries.
This study represents the largest study of the effect of radiotherapy in women who’ve had surgery “breast-conserving” or simply take part without taking the overall breast cancer patients by analyzing clinical trial data involving more than 10,000 women over a period of ten years to 20 years.
Can be seen clearly reduced cancer recurrence in the first year after radiotherapy and lasted for the first decade. After 10 years diagnosed with breast cancer, 35% of women who do not perform radiotherapy will experience reappearance of their cancer will. In contrast to those who underwent radiotherapy only 19% experienced a recurrence.
Quickness of a long time to see the emergence of effects of radiotherapy to death in patients with breast cancer, in 15 years shows that 25% of women who did not receive radiation therapy had died compared with 21% mortality rate in patients receiving radiotherapy. So the bottom line is that radiotherapy did not provide any impact on mortality in patients with breast cancer.
