Cancer study ‘proves chemotherapy safety’

Modern chemotherapy drugs are slicing breast cancer deaths by about a third, a study carried outy by researchers at Oxford’s Clinical Trial Service Unit has found

Scientists analysed data from 123 trials involving around 100,000 women conducted over the past 40 years and found that standard chemotherapy treatments, used in the 1980s, reduced breast cancer death rates by nearly a quarter.

More effective modern drugs reduced mortality by about a third in a wide range of patients, compared with no chemotherapy, irrespective of age, size of tumour and level of spread.

The findings are published in an on-line edition of The Lancet medical journal.

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