| The sad truth is that not everyone, who undergo | | | | affected and if the tumor gets above 5 cm, then the |
| treatments for breast cancer, are able to survive. A | | | | cancer is already reached stage 3A. When the cancer |
| lot of people die every year and there is very little | | | | has already reached the skin of the breast, then it |
| we can do about it. That is why it is necessary to | | | | has reached stage 3B. When already other organs of |
| know more about breast cancer survival rates and | | | | the body are affected then the cancer has reached |
| what treatments you should then choose. The more | | | | stage 4. |
| you know about cancer the better your chances are. | | | | The survival rates from diagnosis for 10-year period |
| The rates of survival certainly depends on many | | | | is around 76% and 5-year survival rate is 86%. |
| different factors and the more advanced the cancer | | | | Cancer patients that have metastatic, have a 5-year |
| is, the lower the survival rates are obviously. The | | | | survival rate of 21% and without metastatic it is |
| breast cancer stages are the best way to determine | | | | 96%. For example Stage 0 has a survival rate of |
| the rate of survival for breast cancer patients. | | | | 100%, like Stage 1, Stage 2A has 92%, Stage 2B has |
| For example Stage 0 means the cancer cells can only | | | | 81%, Stage 3A has 67%, Stage 3B has 54% and |
| be found on the walls of the lump inside the breast | | | | Stage 4 has only 20% survival rate. |
| and that the cancer is non-invasive. Stage 1 of breast | | | | The sooner you have been diagnosed the better you |
| cancer means that the cancer has become invasive | | | | chances will be, as you can see and another way |
| already and that the tumor is around 2 cm long. | | | | how your chances can be increased is with |
| Stage 2A means that the tumor is around 2-5 cm | | | | alternative cancer treatments. There are so many |
| long. | | | | treatments that can either prevent cancer or |
| Stage 2B of breast cancer means that the tumor is 2 | | | | increase your chances of survival. |
| cm long, but some auxiliary lymph nodes have been | | | | |