Flawed breast cancer surgeries leave thousands of women at risk of a relapse, review warns

Flawed breast cancer surgeries leave thousands of women at risk of a relapse, review warns Breast cancer surgery guidelines are leaving thousands of women at risk of the disease returning, a major review has found.

Around one in five women who undergo treatment to remove tumours are having insufficient breast tissue removed, researchers say.

This leaves them with a much higher chance of cancer recurring in the breast or elsewhere, making it incurable. Breast cancer is the second most deadly cancer for women, causing 11,400 deaths a year. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Margin status and survival outcomes after breast cancer conservation surgery: prospectively registered systematic review and meta-analysis (open access) The BMJ