Most early-stage breast cancer patients will be long-term survivors – study

For some patients the risk of death within five years is as low as 0.2%, according to large-scale research

Women diagnosed with early breast cancer are 66% less likely to die from the disease than they were 20 years ago, and most can expect to become long-term survivors", according to the largest study of its kind.

Research from the University of Oxford reveals that the risk of death within five years of diagnosis was 14.4% for women diagnosed between 1993 and 1999.