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Radiation therapy reduces cancer recurrence in older breast cancer patients

01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!

Radiation therapy after lumpectomy and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.

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