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Clinical Articles / BY: H.F. Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCPC, April 2006
... into a benefit of 6% in absolute terms. In patients with node-positive breast cancer there was also a 40% reduction in ... risk of breast cancer occurrence. Women who had low-grade node-negative disease had a very low risk (3%) of breast ... 0 3 1–3 nodes positive 380 9 15 4–9 nodes positive 109 22 30 * Defined as cancer recurrence or second primary breast ...