What is breast cancer survival % rate for follow-up drug(s) vs Arimidex vs no followup drugs? - chemo vs radiation
I have just one years of chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, with cleaner results for the treatment of breast cancer, estrogen-responsive. Mascectomy N, but takes 1 / 2 lumpectomy, so that a 7-inch scar on his chest. I am 64 years old and never been sick before the operation. I can not find anywhere that tells me what the% survival rate five years against the drug-monitoring Armidex no survival at five years. Evidence all comparisons with Arimidex and tamoxifen seemed to make, but what is the survival rate of these drugs in comparison to anything. I want my best survival rate, but I am surprised that I can not answer this question. My oncologist keeps changing the subject and then I forget and can not) their hands on them for a week or less (Kaiser. Thanks
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Chemo Vs Radiation What Is Breast Cancer Survival % Rate For Follow-up Drug(s) Vs Arimidex Vs No Followup Drugs?
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One reason why your oncologist dances around this issue is because there is no study directly comparing patients treated with aromatase inhibitors (eg Arimidex) in patients who do not receive treatment. This is because medical research has shown that tamoxifen is better than no treatment to test whether Arimidex is useful for the comparison must be made with the type of care, tamoxifen is. It would be immoral to chance for patients if we know that the treatment with tamoxifen is significantly better.
So to answer your question, we must do so indirectly:
We know that patients were treated in comparison to the recipients not treated with tamoxifen had a 10% improvement in overall survival (such as breast cancer early, 68% vs. 57%). If Arimidex compared with tamoxifen, is a further improvement of 3.5%. In general, we can extrapolate that the use of Arimidex vs no treatment, it is likely that approximately 13-15%.
Note that the numbers can depend on the exact stage of cancer you have, and one eachND is really no concrete data that are directly related to what you ask.
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