Rule out chemotherapy for early breast cancer - but first take a $5,000 test

Australian Financial Review

4 June 2018 - There is good news for women with early breast cancer, but for Australians it comes at a price.

New research from the United States has just shown that many women with early breast cancer need not have chemotherapy, which can take three to nine months, depending on their tumour.

This year about 18,000 Australian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. The research results mean more than 7,000 of them can be saved the cost, personal pain and complicated side effects of chemotherapy.

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