New study: Radiation therapy boosts breast cancer survival: In the latest phase of a study that has been conducted over 20 years, Dr. Joseph Ragaz, director of Oncology at the McGill University Health Centre, has found added evidence that radiation therapy can help high-risk breast cancer patients.

Dr. Ragaz and his team followed 318 patients who had undergone operations between 1979 and 1986, and discovered significant differences in survival rates depending on the type of post-surgery treatment. In patients who received radiation therapy, there was a 32 percent reduction in breast cancer deaths, and a 27 percent reduction in overall deaths.

To read more on Dr. Ragaz’s study, please go to The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

To read the medical journal entry, please visit Journal of the National Cancer Institute.