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Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Basics
The greatest risk of breast cancer recurrence is in the first few years
The risk of recurrence of breast cancer following surgery levels off over time. What that means is that the greatest risk of recurrence is in the first few years after surgery. Women with early-stage disease in only one breast, face about a 12 percent chance of recurrence within the first two years. At five years, about 26 percent of women will have faced recurrence. At seven years, cancer will have returned in about 32 percent of women who were diagnosed with early-stage disease. But after that, there’s only about a one percent increase per year, through year ten.
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