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How likely is it that someone will die from breast cancer?

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Limited mortality: Prior to mammography most women presented with lesions larger than 5 cm and axillary adenopathy. With introduction of mammography and 3D imaging along with MRI of breast, most lesions are preinvasive, DCIS where with good margins of resection and RT if needed the cure rate is in the 90%. When mets do occur to bone because of a large triple neg. lesion, with hormones and chemo many live 10 yrs

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