A recent study revealed that the risk of repeating breast cancer in relation to recovery from the disease at a relatively low age, ranging from 2% to only 3% compared to women who have not previously been ill.
The results of this study, published by the scientific journal “Prethe Medical Journal”
(British Medical Journal) specializing in medical research in reassuring many recovered women who believe that the risk of malignant disease again compared to other women.
Scientists affirm that although the risk of repeating cancer remains high, the percentage varies from one study to another, and the risk of repeating the disease is associated with other factors such as the quality of treatment and social and healthy lifestyles as well as genetic factors.
The researchers used data from the National Center for Cancer Data Registration in England, and the results were based on a case of 476,373 patients with breast cancer during the period from 1993 to 2016 in the ages between 20 to 75 years. During the follow -up period, it was found that 64,747 women were injured in the same type of cancer again, but the study confirmed that this rate is not significantly high compared to those who have never had malignant disease.
During 20 years, 13.6% of recovery in other types of cancer other than breast cancer (especially uterine, lung and intestinal cancer), an increase of 2.1% compared to those who have never had cancer, and 5.6% of the recovery of breast cancer corresponding to again, an increase of 3.1% compared to those who have not been ill before.
For women who were ill at the age of forty, the rate of the risk of repeating cancer was again at the age of sixty, 6% compared to 2% to 4% for those who have never had the disease.
In statements to the website “Medical Express”, which specializes in medical research, the study team says that an estimated 7% of the cases of repetition of breast cancer may be caused by auxiliary treatment methods after initial treatment such as surgeries, but they emphasize though the importance of these auxiliary treatment in almost all pathological cases when doctors are advised to resort to.