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Finally! Now, Women With Early Stage Breast Cancer Can Avoid Poisonous Chemotherapy. Gene Test Of Cancer Cells Has Been Effective At Identifying Women Who Would Not Need Chemo, But Instead, Would Take Drugs To Block Or Prevent Hormone Estrogen, So As To Lower The Risks Of Recurrence, New Breast Tumors, And Death From The Disease.

Good News for Women With Breast Cancer: Many Don’t Need Chemo – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/health/breast-cancer-chemo.html

Many women with early-stage forms of the disease can forego chemo, based on a test that measures the activity of genes involved in breast cancer recurrence.