Prognostics

Older Patients Have Higher Disease-Free Survival Rate

Published in Breast Cancer Weekly, February 5th, 2000

Breast cancer patients ages 60-69 years had a local recurrence rate of just 3% at 3 years compared with a 10% local recurrence rate for other age groups.

Women in that age group who showed no evidence of lymph node involvement had the highest disease-free survival rate of all patients in a study from Britain, published in the January 15, 2000, issue of Cancer (Golledge et al., "Age-related variation in the treatment and outcomes of patients with breast carcinoma," Cancer, 2000;88(2):369-374).

Those women in their sixties who were lymph node-negative had a 91% disease-free survival rate at 3 years compared with a 78% rate for other age...

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Source: Breast Cancer Weekly (2000-02-05)

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