Sarah Darby
Sarah Darby
Sarah Darby is a British epidemiologist. In recent years, her research has concerned evaluating the beneficial effects of giving up smoking, the risk of lung cancer from residential radon and treatments for early breast cancer...
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It is now clear that radiotherapy saves lives in women who have had breast-conserving surgery and in women whose cancer has substantial spread to the armpit, even if they have already had a mastectomy. This should encourage women who are offered radiotherapy to go ahead and have the treatment. It may also encourage doctors to consider more women for radiotherapy than they have done in the past.