'We're giving up too soon': advanced breast cancer expert calls for attitude change in NZ

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31 January 2019 - Kiwi women are dying of advanced breast cancer twice as fast as people in comparable countries.

New Zealand women with incurable advanced breast cancer are being let down in more ways than one, according to a visiting oncologist.

For more than a decade, Dr Fatima Cardoso​ has been on a global mission to improve care for patients with terminal breast cancer, and she has turned her attention to New Zealand for the first time.

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