Well Breast Cancer is in the news yet again - some good news this time. Death from Breast Cancer is down by 26.4%! This is up to 2006 and I would imagine the figures are even better from that time to now. The improvement in chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and in hormonal treatments such as tamoxifen, are giving great hope to those diagnosed with this disease.
As Breast Check wasn't up and running fully in Ireland during that time, it is unlikely that it had a major impact on the figures to 2006, but maybe more so since then.
Of course the debate continues about the benefits of screening and the suggestion by some that it leads to 'over-diagnosis' with perhaps unnecessary treatment.
Read more in The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0813/1224276712696.html
