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Good news! The five-year survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States is now 90%[1]. Unfortunately, when looking at other statistics, the outlook worrying: one in eight women will develop an invasive form of breast cancer during their lifetime. In 2020, two million new cancer cases were diagnosed worldwide. Breast cancer is the most common cancer type among women and the second deadliest, following lung cancer. To better understand the urgency of treatments: in 2020, 685,000 women lost their lives from breast cancer.

And we would rather not have to go through this – which would mean we won the battle and cancer is curable.

And we would rather not have to go through this – which would mean we won the battle and cancer is curable.

The Candriam Institute provides financial support to the PRecISion Medicine Institute. The PRISM technology aims to save an additional 200,000 lives each year by identifying the unique molecular characteristics of each patient's cancer.

Scientific and technological advances now mean that curing some types of cancer is no longer a pipe dream.