Breast Cancer Survival Rates See Improvement

The average risk of dying from breast cancer in the five years after an early diagnosis has fallen.

Most women diagnosed wtih early breast cancer will survive beyond 5 years a study reports. Death rates from breast cancer have been on a steady decline in recent decades, dropping more than 40% between 1989 and 2020. The average risk of dying from breast cancer in the five years after an early diagnosis has fallen from 14% to 5% since the 1990s, according to a recent study from the University of Oxford in England, that was published in the British Medical Journal. For those diagnosed between the years 2010 and 2015, more than six in 10 women had a 3% or less risk of dying within five years. The database includes 300-thousand cases.