Most women with early breast cancer ‘can expect to become long-term survivors’
UK doctors analysed the registry data of more than half a million women diagnosed with breast cancer from 1993 to 2015.
Most women diagnosed with early breast cancer will become long-term survivors, according to new research that shows a substantial reduction in the risk of death in recent decades.
UK doctors say the average risk of dying from breast cancer within five years of diagnosis has dropped from 14% to 5% since the 1990s.
And more than 60% of women diagnosed from 2010 to 2015 had a five-year mortality risk of 3% or less, they reported in the BMJ.
“Our study is good news for the great majority of women diagnosed with early breast cancer today, because their prognosis has improved so much,” the University of Oxford-led researchers said.
