We Need More Breast Cancer Trials For Younger Patients Urge Experts

The poorer survival rates of younger breast cancer patients could be a result of insufficient clinical trials for this age group. This was a conclusion of a major new Cancer Research UK study published online recently in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI). Senior author Dianna Eccles, who heads Cancer Research UK's Southampton Clinical Trials Unit, says in a statement: "This study adds to the evidence that breast cancer can behave very differently when diagnosed in younger women...