Some breast cancer patients with low genetic risk could skip chemotherapy

Friday, September 2, 2016 - 08:01 in Health & Medicine

Early-stage breast cancer patients whose tumors carry genetic markers associated with a low risk of disease recurrence may not need to undergo chemotherapy, suggests a new study that employed a test devised by a UC San Francisco researcher. In the study, reported Aug. 24, in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers profiled surgically removed […]

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