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A Risk-benefit Assessment Approach to Selection of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients with Early Breast Cancer: A Mini Review

Decision-making regarding the use and selection of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in elderly patients is challenging due to the presence of age-related comorbidities, frailty, and competing causes of mortality. One area, relatively neglected in most guidelines, is the effect of competing ca...

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Autores principales: Agarwala, Vivek, Choudhary, Neha, Gupta, Sudeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333024
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_96_17