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OncoLink FAQ: Survival Rates for Grade III Breast Cancer Last Revision Date: Sunday, 14-Feb-1999 13:54:29 EST Copyright © 1994-1999, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania The following question is from an OncoLink reader concerned with the 5 and 10 year survival rates for stage III breast cancer. Question: Can you please give me the most recent 5 and 10 year survival rates for grade III breast cancer? Kenneth Blank, MD and John Han-Chih Chang, MD, Editorial Assistants for Oncolink, respond: Thank you for your question. The 6 year survival rates for the different stages of breast cancer are: Stage I: >94% StageIIA: 80% StageIIB: 63% StageIIIA and III: 50% Stage IV: 10% These statistics were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End results Program (SEER) of the National Cancer Institute. These are the numbers for breast cancer patients diagnosed between 1983 and 1987. Over 50,000 patients participated in this study.

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