Non Cancer deaths are common among breast cancer survivors

According to a research it was found that women who have survived breast cancer, have greater risk of non cancer death. Judith-Anne Chapman, Ph.D., and colleagues with the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group investigated for 4 years on 5000 breast cancer survivors. During this trial 256 women died among which 60% death are not related with breast cancer. It was also found that this percentage increased to 72% in case of women who are 70 years and older.It was also revealed that women who are suffering from preexisting heart disease were more likely to die of non-cancer causes and whose breast cancer cell spread through lymph were died of breast cancer.The women who are suffering from pre-existing osteoporosis were at greater risk of dying from cancers other than breast cancer.