Breast Cancer

Chemotherapy trial proves the worth of including elderly patients in clinical trials

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 14th, 2002

Doctors should be encouraged to include many more elderly people in clinical trials than they do at present, Dr. Olavo Feher told the 3rd European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona.

Feher, attending physician at the Hospital do Cancer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, said that the elderly were under-represented in clinical trials for cancer treatments, yet his research showed that useful results could be obtained if they were included in trials.

"Age is a known major risk factor for most cancers in adults," he said. "Approximately 50% of all new breast cancers occur in women age 65 or older. However older women tend to be under-treated. Several clinical...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-05-14)

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