2023-08-04 20:41:45
Women who get screened before the age of 50 for breast cancer have better chances of survival, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
A team of researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa found that people living in provinces and territories where breast cancer screening was done for women aged 40 to 49 had lower risk of death.
The researchers used statistics from 50,921 women aged 40 to 59 who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2002 and 2007 from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Cancer Registry.
The data shows that cancer rates were higher among women aged 50 to 59 in provinces and territories where early screenings are not available.
When screening took place earlier, the chances of surviving breast cancer ten years following diagnosis were 84.8%. For provinces and territories where early detection was not available, the ten-year survival rate for a woman was 82.9%.
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