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...main reason for the increasing cure rate is the success of multidisciplinary techniques or combinations of treatments," Emil Frei, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said yesterday...
Although often thought of as a modern disease, cancer is as old as the most primitive animals and plants. Fossils more than 60-million-years old show that cancer afflicted dinosaurs. By the time of early Egyptians, cancer was a well known disease that men tried to cure with medication and surgery...
...average cure rate for all cancers, except for common skin cancer, is between 35 and 40 per cent, an increase of about 10 per cent from decade ago. If diagnosed early, some cancers have cure rates of up to 75 per cent...
...once a tumor spreads beyond a certain point--breast cancer after it has spread to the lymph nodes, for example--the cure rate decreases dramatically...
Norman L. Sadowsky, clinical instructor in Radiology, said yesterday. "The overall five-year cure rate for breast cancer is only an 18-per-cent chance that the patient will survive five years after treatment. If the tumor is detected early, however, usually through mammography, an X-ray of the breast, the five-year cure rate is about 90 per cent...