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What are the chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer?

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What are the chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer?

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Chemotherapy has advantages for nearly every breast cancer patient regardless of whether her cancer is hormone receptor-positive or negative. Patients less likely to benefit from it are the following: Patients with cancer in situ or cancer that has a very low risk for invasion. Patients who are significantly ill. Age may be a factor in benefits from chemotherapy. A major international study reported the following 10-year survival rates in 2000: Survival rates improved from 64% to 71% (by 8%) in women under 50 years old. Survival rates increased from 57% to 61% (by 4%) in women 50 to 69. It is expected that benefits in older women would be even more modest. The most important advances in the cure of breast cancer have come through the use of drug, also called systemic, therapy. Surgery and chemotherapy/radiation therapy are effective for treating tumors confined to the breast but not for cancer cells that have spread. In such cases, drug therapy is needed. Drugs works systemically. That

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