Many cancers can be cured if detected early and treated in their early stages.

This certainly is true in the detection of breast cancer. Early detection of breast cancer leads to more options for the patient for treatment and more opportunity for cure.

• For localized disease when diagnosed with breast cancer the five-year survival rate is 96%.
  
  
• The five-year survival rate with distant metastasis at the time of diagnosis is much lower at 20%.

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