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CANCER TREATMENT
What amount of chemotherapy is needed?
In developed countries, a woman’s chance of getting breast cancer is around one-in-eight. Chemotherapy is effective but can have serious side effects and up to one-in-five early breast cancer patients could be receiving too much chemotherapy. EU-funded research has shown that combining traditional methods for assessing a tumour’s aggressiveness with a new laboratory test helps set the amount of chemotherapy needed.