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Advancements in treatment of breast cancer

Healthcare and medicine concept - womans hands holding pink breast cancer awareness ribbon. [Photo: Courtesy]

Advancement in breast cancer treatment over the last five years offers victims a higher chance of survival. With the new developments, women with stage four breast cancer can live up to 10 or 20 years more after diagnosis.

Dr Ahmed Komen, a radiation oncologist at the Aga Khan Hospital, says this has now made the cancer to be considered more like a chronic disease like diabetes and hypertension rather than an absolutely fatal affliction.

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