Breast Cancer Recurrence Rates. While public opinion often equates surviving 5 years with breast cancer to a cure breast cancers may recur at a later time. While prognosis is on average poorer than with hormone receptor or human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 her2 positive tumors triple negative breast cancer is a very heterogeneous diverse disease.
5 year relative survival rates for breast cancer based on women diagnosed with breast cancer between 2009 and 2015. It s also sometimes called relapse. Breast cancer can return locally in breast or scar tissue or distantly in other parts of the body including bones.
Furthermore some medical studies show that survival rates vary for different types and subtypes of breast tumors according to the time intervals of recurrence.
The death rate was 20 1 per 100 000 women per year. But after year 5 the annual rates of death from breast cancer and distant recurrence were similar. Only a few cancer cells need to survive treatment for this to happen. Furthermore some medical studies show that survival rates vary for different types and subtypes of breast tumors according to the time intervals of recurrence.
