Glenfield Hospital, Leicester

Researchers describe findings in breast cancer studies

Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, March 12th, 2006

Breast cancer research advances have been reported from the United Kingdom and United States.

Study 1: The issue of age has been used to exclude or delay elderly patients with breast cancer from local therapy, resulting in suboptimal treatment.

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...

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Source: Nursing Home and Elder Business Week (2006-03-12)

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