Chemotherapy Is Not Needed In The Treatment of Most Early Breast Cancers: TAILORx Trial Results

Overtreatment of medical conditions has become the most talked about topic in medicine.  Every medical specialty is looking at overtreatment and how to minimise it. 
 
There are two main reasons why this is happening.  First, if a patient is not going to benefit from treatment, then we as doctors are placing these patients under unnecessary risks of complications from the treatment.  Secondly, we are wasting the resources that should be used for other treatments that patients would benefit from.