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Well, you can't really say anything about cancer without the "before the age of XX" part. Like, if she had an 87% chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 57 like her mother, then she has improved her lifetime by a lot. (even if you take the 33% percent number, she went from 87% to ~33%, tell me that's not significant).

Also keep in mind that breast cancer is in a rather critical area, the slightest of spread affects the most vital of organs, this has a large effect on the survivability.

With the current speed of technology, I think anything that delays cancer is something that gives you an increased chance of surviving cancer.




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