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The prognosis for breast cancer depends on its stage at the time of diagnosis
and the number of lymph nodes that were involved when the cancer was
discovered. Women whose tumors were smaller than three-quarters of an
inch with no lymph node involvement have a survival rate of 96 percent
five years after diagnosis; those with tumors larger than two inches with several
lymph nodes involved have a five-year survival rate of only 45 percent.