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Breast Cancer
Older people lose out all around in breast cancer treatment and care
April 6th, 2004
Managing breast cancer in elderly patients presents particularly difficult challenges, an oncologist acknowledged. Lars Holmberg, from the Regional Oncologic Center, Uppsala, Sweden, told the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference that, with about 25% of all breast cancer patients being 75 or older, health policies in most countries were badly in need of developing strategies to meet this growing problem. "It is commonly believed that elderly people have a better prognosis in cancer," he said, "but from looking at data from cancer registries we can see that this is not the case. In fact, the prognosis for older people seems to be worse, and this,...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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