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Old 03-18-2011, 06:56 AM   #4
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Re: What breastcancer.org says....about bc patients face leukemia risk

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Women have been receiving adjuvent treatment since the 1970's and one study was done from 1970 to 1986 with over 3,000 women from France.
The drugs most commonly assoicated with late AML are anthracyclines, "third generation chemotherapies," which were not used as adjuvant breast cancer treatment during that time period. With breast cancer suvivors making up the largest group of cancer survivors, the true risk of this side effect will not become apparent for quite some time, until the cohorts who received the drug live 10 to 15 years post treatment.


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