Posted 4/4/2013 by hhill
In a way, this is a companion piece to my recent blog on the use (or not) of the word "cure" in Cancer World. In Breast Cancer World, five year survival rates are misleading, often misused, and not so important. As I have said before, each year that you stay healthy, the odds of remaining healthy increase. But three years or five years or even ten years have no special magic for women who have had breast cancer. Research and statistics have to be organized in some way, and the standard format is five and ten years.
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