Breast Cancer
Age previously excluded elderly patients with breast cancer from local treatment
Published in Drug Week, February 10th, 2006
According to recent research from England, "Most patients with breast cancer are likely to benefit from local treatment (surgery and/or radiotherapy). Historically an arbitrary cut-off of 70 years has been widely used, above which women were considered for tamoxifen-only treatment."
"We looked at the proportion of our patients who did not have early surgery for breast cancer to see if this cut-off might have been used too rigidly, resulting in suboptimal treatment of some patients over 70 years of age. A step...
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Source: Drug Week (2006-02-10)
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