To print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Radiotherapy/chemotherapy/hormone Treatment May Prevent Breast Cancer Relapses URL: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/1E2926.htm Doctor's Guide September 27, 2000
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- September 27, 2000 -- New findings show that adjuvant treatments prevent late relapses in breast cancer patients. Breast cancer is an unusual disease because it can come back 10 or 15 years later. The new findings show that a lot of these late recurrences can be prevented by adjuvant treatment with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and, in particular, the hormone treatment tamoxifen. "This is the first time we've had good evidence on the effects of treatment on 15 year survival", said Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford, UK. He told the 2nd European Breast Cancer Conference, Wednesday, 27 September: "These results, from a worldwide overview of 300 randomised trials, that included around 200 000 patients, are a lot better than we expected. It seems that we can at last talk about real cure", he said. "The best evidence on the extent to which better treatment is saving lives is from the UK, where tamoxifen was widely used from the 1980s, and where deaths from breast cancer in middle-aged women have fallen by 30 percent over the past decade. It seems as though several other European countries are now beginning to follow in the same direction." The next worldwide overview, in five years time, will show whether these survival gains are still being maintained. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1999 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of P\S\L content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of P\S\L. P\S\L shall not be liable for any errors, omissions or delays in this content or any other content on its sites, newsletters or other publications, nor for any decisions or actions taken in reliance on such content. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This news story was printed from *Doctor's Guide to the Internet* located at http://www.docguide.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to News Story Page This site is maintained by webmaster@pslgroup.com Please contact us with any comments, problems or bugs. All contents Copyright (c) 1998 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved.