Women diagnosed today are 66% less likely to die from breast cancer than 20 years ago
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In a study looking at half a million women in England with early breast cancer, those diagnosed between 1993-1999 had a 5-year breast cancer mortality risk of 14.4%, but those diagnosed 2010-2015 had a 5-year mortality risk of 4.9%.
Read the full paper by Professor Carolyn Taylor and her team here: https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2022-074684