Some Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Can Safely Skip Chemotherapy

reports that research indicates “many women with early-stage breast cancer who would receive chemotherapy under current standards do not actually need it, according to a major international study that is expected to quickly change medical treatment.” Investigators “found that gene tests on tumor samples were able to identify women who could safely skip chemotherapy and take only a drug that blocks the hormone estrogen or stops the body from making it.” The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/health/breast-cancer-chemo.html