THE improvement in survival rates for breast cancer is to be welcomed.
Eighty per cent of patients in the Thames Valley are still alive five years after diagnosis, but there is still one in five who are not because of this terrible disease.
Education about screening to aid early detection has improved but hopefully these figures will not lead to any complacency and, in another 15 years’ time, we will see even better survival rates.
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