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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to reduce its risks, how to avoid infection, and to learn about early detection and proper diagnosis methods, and according to the World Health Organization, it is the most common type of cancer with more than 2.2 million cases in 2020, with nearly one woman out of every 12 women with breast cancer in their lifetime.
A recent study by the Cleveland Clinic revealed an increased survival rate from breast cancer when treatment that includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation is completed, and after 38 weeks of initial diagnosis, according to a report published in Medical Express.
The study focused on the importance of early diagnosis and the start of the treatment journey, and the impact of this on increasing the rate of survival from complications of the disease, which may lead to death in some cases, as researchers succeeded in examining more than 28,000 breast cancer patients, who underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation as part of the treat them.
The researchers discovered that if the three aforementioned stages were completed in less than 38 weeks, there would be a higher five-year survival rate of surviving complications from the disease, while if the treatment took longer than that, it affected their survival.
The researchers pointed out the importance of surgery and methods of removing the tumor, regardless of the type of breast cancer that you have, which contribute to increasing the survival rate from the disease and its serious complications.
The researchers recommended that women should have regular breast self-examinations at home, and they also emphasized mammograms for women over the age of 40, regardless of whether they had a family history of breast cancer.
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