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Treatment Significantly Improves Long-Term Outlook for Breast Cancer Survivors

10/9/2003 International clinical trial concludes women should consider taking letrozole after five years of tamoxifen treatment to continue to reduce risk of recurrence.

Decline Shown in Death Rates from Four Leading Cancers :

09/02/2003 - Death rates from the four most common cancers - lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal - continued to decline in the late 1990s according to new data from the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000."

1938 – 2006 NCI appropriations total $67.5 billion!