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Doctors say the tumor is now inoperable and they expect Glicklich to survive only nine months...
...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...
...newer technique, cyrosurgery, cures a simple skin cancer by freezing the tumor and allowing it to fall off easily...
When Glicklich finally had a biopsy in July, 1979--three months after seeing Spievack and 11 months after she first noticed a lump in her right breast -the tumor had grown from one to ten centimeters and was then inoperable, her attorney said...