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Both the women in the study taking just hormone treatment and those taking the combination of hormone treatment and chemotherapy
該研究中，只接受激素治療的女性患者和還接受了化療的女性患者
had a nearly 94% chance of surviving their cancer after nine years.
9年后還能幸存的比例均略低于94%。
“The important take-home message is that we have an unprecedented level of evidence
“核心思想是，我們掌握了前所未有的證據，
for using the genetic test to guide chemotherapy use with an unprecedented level of precision,” says Sparano.
表明基因檢測能為化療提供一定依據，并能達到前所未有的預測精度，”斯帕拉諾說。
The results provide much-needed reassurance to doctors and patients who in recent years have been questioning how much treatment is enough.
近年來，醫生和患者對多大強度的治療才算夠這一問題一直都存在疑問，斯帕拉諾此次的研究結果便猶如給了二者一粒定心丸。
Especially for women at intermediate risk,
尤其是對于那些復發風險處于中等水平的女性患者，
“we’ve always known that we are overtreating with chemotherapy,”
“我們一直都知道，（給她們）化療的話，治療強度會稍微有點過，”
says Dr. Sara Hurvitz, director of the breast oncology program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
加州大學洛杉磯分校乳腺腫瘤項目主任薩拉·赫維茨醫生說。
Oncotype DX analyzes 21 genes to rate recurrence risk on a scale from 0 to 100.
（該項目使用的）Oncotype DX癌型檢測技術會對21個基因展開分析，并用0~100之間的數字來表示復發風險的評估結果。
Higher risk scores warrant chemotherapy,
風險評估的數值越高，化療越有必要。
but until this study, it was less clear whether women with intermediate risk scores, from 11 to 25, needed it.
然而，截止這一研究，評估結果在11~25之間的女性患者是否需要化療尚不十分明了。
“I would spend a lot of time with my patients saying, ‘We don’t know what the absolute benefit of chemotherapy is for you,’”
“我經常都要跟我的病人說，‘我們并不知道化療對你究竟有什么好處，’”
says Dr.Dawn Hershman, director of the breast-cancer program at New York– Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
紐約長老會醫院-哥倫比亞大學歐文醫學中心乳腺癌項目主任道恩·赫斯曼醫生說道。
Most doctors erred on the side of caution.
大多數醫生都選擇穩妥起見。
“I have been leaning toward chemo,”
“我一直傾向于給她們化療，”
says Dr. Larry Norton, medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
紀念斯隆-凱特琳癌癥中心伊芙琳·H.蘭黛乳房中心的醫學主任拉里·諾頓說。
“Everything else being equal, it’s better to treat and prevent metastasis than not to treat and allow metastasis.”
“在其他條件相同的情況下，治療和預防轉移比不治療并任由其轉移要好?！?/p>
