The Hong Kong Breast Cancer Database of the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation shows that the ten-year survival rate of Chinese breast cancer patients was 87.7 percent. While the ten-year survival rate of patients with the early diagnosis was almost 90 percent, the rate dropped to less than 30 percent with stage 4 cancer.
The Foundation published its 14th Annual Study on Sep 28.
The research team examined the records of 7,930 Chinese patients diagnosed with breast cancer between 2006 and 2011, amounting to 42.5 percent of the total cases. The researchers followed up with 62.3 percent of those patients or data diagnosed with breast cancer for ten years, making this the first most extended survival ratio study in Hong Kong….