In the U.S., two new studies show that receive less than the best care for many women with breast cancer. Washington State study, the percentage of patients undergoing breast cancer surgery, found that breast conservation is turned off. Decline occurs despite treatment recommendations that target the chest to keep all women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.

In the second study, a survey of hospitals in Illinois, a small urban hospitals have found signs of failing to properly diagnose and treat breast cancer. In particular, the study reinforces the evidence that low-income people to receive care without insurance poorer than those with adequate private health insurance. Both studies were published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, current treatments for breast cancer, while far from perfect, much progress has been produced in recent years as a step to a patient in a uniform way out by suggesting that there is.

University of Washington researchers found the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle was particularly surprising. They called the rate of decline in breast cancer patients with tumors of the breast instead of performing a mastectomy removes the entire breast, surgeons, tax procedures and some surrounding tissue tumor found. This national survey major already, a woman with a form of early breast cancer are similar or followed by radiation, has been published shows that the treatment in Breast Tumors by removing the entire breast, or other. The findings attracted attention in the treatment of cancer journals. Based on the survey, a panel of the United States, the combination of breast surgery and radiation, which concluded that prefer to retain the majority of women actually stage 1 and 2 disease. However, according to a study in Seattle, physicians and patients are not aware of the news when they do.

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