The study compared a combination of chemotherapy drugs - the standard treatment - to a single drug in patients with early-stage breast cancer aged 65 and older.

本研究比较了一种联合化疗药物(标准治疗方法)与单一药物对65岁及以上老年早期乳腺癌患者的疗效。

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Radiation therapy plays an important role in the multidisciplinary treatment of early stage breast cancer.

放射治疗在早期乳腺癌的综合治疗中具有重要地位。

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"We know from early-stage breast cancer that survival has improved with the use of international consensus guidelines - and now we must do the same for metastatic disease," she said.

从早期乳腺癌的治疗我们得知，使用国际性指南能改善患者生存——现在我们必须对转移性乳腺癌也这样做。

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One experiment by University of Toronto cancer researcher Robert Kerbel mimicked treating early-stage breast cancer with Pfizer's kidney cancer drug Sutent for short periods of time and then stopping.

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And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.

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Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.

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