CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Research offers hopeful news to women whose breast cancers are typically more difficult to treat: Modern chemotherapy means more of them will survive than previously thought. The latest findings offer more evidence that a tumor's "personality characteristics" are more important than size and how much the cancer has spread.

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