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4th June 2018
11:44am BST

Research was conducted over the course of 15 years and showed that the vast majority of women with this form of cancer could alleviate their uncertainty about undergoing chemotherapy.
The study was described as the largest breast cancer trial in the world and has since been hailed as a "breakthrough."
Almost 700 Irish women took part in the decade and a half long study.
One in nine women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetimes. It is most common in women between 45 and 64 years old.
15 percent of cases occur in women under the age of 44.
The results of the trial were released this week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.Explore more on these topics: