A patient of mine recently visited my clinic whom I diagnosed to have infiltrating ductal carcinoma ( breast cancer) stage 1 in 1987; 25 years after I removed her right breast. Most of you would surely say that most breast cancer only survive for 5-10 years. I do have a lot of patients who did survived more than 15 years after surgery after chemotherapy. If you keep tab of the multimedia releases, what you often hear on breast cancer is grim. The long survival rate of my patients is due to early detection by physical examination not by ultrasound or mammogram. Some women do away with physical examination by an expert surgeon and go straight for these diagnostics. Nothing could substitute for a good physical examination
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