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http://www.thebreastonline.com/article/PIIS0960977612001269/abstract?rss=yes
Partly as a result of screening, increasing numbers of older patients are presenting with ‘low risk’ breast cancer: tumours from which the likelihood of breast cancer death is minute; even so, these patients have a measurable risk of local recurrence if conservative surgery is not followed by some form of adjuvant treatment.
