Sentences with phrase «percent of advanced breast cancer»

«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 30 percent of advanced breast cancer metastases,» says Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, director of the Molecular Neurotherapy and Imaging Laboratory in the MGH Departments of Radiology and Neurology, who led the study.

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James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.
Analysis of blood samples taken at several points in time from a group of patients with different forms of advanced metastatic breast cancer found CTC clusters in the blood of 35 percent of patients and that the survival of those with more clusters in their blood was significantly reduced.
«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 40 percent of advanced melanoma metastases.
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