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Breast Cancer Diagnosis After Pregnancy Predicts Worse Survival
Breast Cancer Diagnosis After Pregnancy Predicts Worse Survival
S Freeman
20100305
2010 Apr 5
Elsevier Global Medical News
Breast Cancer Diagnosis After Pregnancy Predicts Worse Survival
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Apr 5, S Freeman
BARCELONA (EGMN) - Women younger than 45 years are 48% more likely to die if they are diagnosed with breast cancer in the first 12 months after completing a pregnancy than are other young women who are diagnosed with breast cancer and are not pregnant.In a study of 2,752 breast cancer patients who were seen at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, Dr. Angela Ives and associates also found that there was a small (3%), but nonsignificant rise in the risk of death in women who were diagnosed...