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Pre-op chemotherapy could help cancer patients keep their breasts, report by Hong Kong support group shows

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Early chemotherapy before surgery is the “new hope” for breast cancer sufferers, as it reduces tumour size and allows patients a better chance of saving their breasts, according to a local support group. A report by the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation stated that 46 per cent of breast cancer patients could keep their breasts if medicine were given in neoadjuvant setting, meaning treatment done as a first step to shrink a tumour before the main treatment – the operation,...

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