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OVER the past 20 years, breast cancer survival rates have “significantly improved” in the ACT and its surrounding region, a long-term study has revealed.
The study, titled “The ACT and South East NSW Breast Cancer Treatment Group Quality Assurance Project Report”, which summarised data collected from July 1997 to June 2017, found that the risk of a woman getting a recurring cancer after an operation and treatment for an invasive breast cancer has dropped 61 per cent in 20 years.
Supported by Canberra Health Services and NSW Health, the study also found:
Over a third (35 per cent) of all cases of invasive breast cancer were screen-detected;