(ANSA) - Rome, October 4 - Some 80% of Italian women with
breast cancer are alive 10 years after their diagnosis, the
Italian association of oncological medicine AIOM said Wednesday.
It said awareness of the cancer was still low and almost a
third of Italian women, 31%, did not know the importance of
feeling one's breasts for lumps.
Some 57% did not know it was possible to treat the disease
even at an advanced stage, AIOM said.
80% breast cancer patients live 10 yrs
31% of Italian women don't know importance of feeling for lumps