What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
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Dear @wingman, Thank you very much for inviting BCNA network members to contribute our thoughts on research needed into breast cancer issues.
My request would be that a national, comprehensive system be developed to record effects of treatment; whether that be recovery from surgery, chemotherapy side-effects and hormone treatment side-effects.
This information could be linked to other information about types of breast cancer, recovery, re-occurence and patient well-being. This could then lead to more tailored treatment and better treatment and survival rates, and avoidance of some of the horrible nasty side-effects.
Best wishes for your work.
My request would be that a national, comprehensive system be developed to record effects of treatment; whether that be recovery from surgery, chemotherapy side-effects and hormone treatment side-effects.
This information could be linked to other information about types of breast cancer, recovery, re-occurence and patient well-being. This could then lead to more tailored treatment and better treatment and survival rates, and avoidance of some of the horrible nasty side-effects.
Best wishes for your work.