tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360129532024-09-04T12:51:38.137-07:00For three years breast cancer treatment is followed by a rising mortality which afterwards declines.Prof. Gershom Zajicek M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121241991705969670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36012953.post-20705981739376394422006-10-17T01:15:00.000-07:002006-11-07T05:41:08.788-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/921/4396/1600/radiation1.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/921/4396/320/radiation1.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Legend: <strong>nR</strong> = number of irradiated. <strong>nN</strong> = number of not-irradiated<br /><br />Three years after the diagnosis of breast cancer the<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/newmedicine/breast.htm">hazard rate rises and later on it declines </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">.</span> This rise is attributed to treatment and it is assumed here that since the woman depends somehow on her tumor its removal initiates the rising hazard. This phenomenon is observed also in female genital cancers where it is augmented by irradiation.<strong></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>Data source</strong></span><b><br /></b><br />Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program (www.seer.cancer.gov) SEER*Stat Database: Incidence - SEER 9 Regs Public-Use, Nov 2004 Sub (1973-2002), National Cancer Institute, DCCPS, Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch, released April 2005, based on the November 2004 submission. </span><br /><strong></strong><br /><br />The hazard rate of not irradiated women follows the <a href="http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/newmedicine/breast.htm"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">bi-modal pattern described in the previous</span> study, </a> and it is augmented by radiation. For three years following radiation it rises, wherupon it declines.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://www.what-is-cancer.com/papers/newmedicine/radiationinducedhazard.htm">Click here for the entire study</a>Prof. Gershom Zajicek M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121241991705969670noreply@blogger.com