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APRIL 28, 2017

Higher Rates of Distant Metastasis, Mortality in Breast Cancer Patients

Rates of distant metastasis and mortality were found to be higher among breast cancer patients with hormone receptor (HR)-negative, HER2-negative disease than other cancer types, in a review of physician-reported clinical information from the Optum Oncology Management Registry (Cancer Res 2017;77[4 suppl]:Abstract P5-08-15).

Presenting their findings at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the investigators identified 6,881 patients 18 years of age or older with early-stage breast