Study: Modern medicine improves cancer survival

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Wed, 07 Dec 2011 7:03a.m.

Girls wave their scarves during an awareness rally for breast cancer in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh (Reuters)

Girls wave their scarves during an awareness rally for breast cancer in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh (Reuters)

A major study of breast cancer says modern drugs have improved the odds for sufferers.

Scientists reviewed more than 100 scientific trials involving around 100,000 women with breast cancer over the past 40 years.

They found that one in three women now survives the disease compared to one in four in the 1980's.

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