Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins today as new interventions and sorting methods have transformed breast cancer from a virtual death sentence to a far more survivable disease.

That's according to a bailiwick of adult females treated at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

In a account, research workers say 60 years ago, a woman who experienced a breast cancer diagnosing had just a 25-percent chance of dwelling ten years.

Today the survival rate is higher than 75 %.

A team of researchers poured over the records of thous of women treated at the center since 1944.

They say for the most ambitious form of the cancer, where tumours have distributed in the breast, the ten spot class survival rate was just 16-percent in the full stop from 1944 to 1955.

That pattern leapt to 57-percent for those who were diagnosed between 1985 and 1994.

The full account will be given this week at a get together of breast cancer specialists patronized by the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Washington, DC.

Today marks the commencement of Breast Cancer Awareness calendar month.