Quality of life for elderly breast cancer patients: a new regard

The elderly are considered less tolerant to cancer management, most oncologists are not optimistic about clinical outcome and toxicity profile following of elderly cancer patients’ treatment. The use of the quality of life assessment may base the decision to treat breast cancer patients on more fact...

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Autores principales: Mahfouz, Mohamed Abdelrahim, Almaghrabi, Mohammed Yahia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8797702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35117954
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.07.39
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description The elderly are considered less tolerant to cancer management, most oncologists are not optimistic about clinical outcome and toxicity profile following of elderly cancer patients’ treatment. The use of the quality of life assessment may base the decision to treat breast cancer patients on more factors than just their ‘age’ alone. Our aim in this review is to address the quality-of-life (QoL) assessment importance on elderly breast cancer population who are treated with anticancer modalities.
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spelling pubmed-87977022022-02-02 Quality of life for elderly breast cancer patients: a new regard Mahfouz, Mohamed Abdelrahim Almaghrabi, Mohammed Yahia Transl Cancer Res Review Article The elderly are considered less tolerant to cancer management, most oncologists are not optimistic about clinical outcome and toxicity profile following of elderly cancer patients’ treatment. The use of the quality of life assessment may base the decision to treat breast cancer patients on more factors than just their ‘age’ alone. Our aim in this review is to address the quality-of-life (QoL) assessment importance on elderly breast cancer population who are treated with anticancer modalities. AME Publishing Company 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8797702/ /pubmed/35117954 http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.07.39 Text en 2020 Translational Cancer Research. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Open Access Statement: This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits the non-commercial replication and distribution of the article with the strict proviso that no changes or edits are made and the original work is properly cited (including links to both the formal publication through the relevant DOI and the license). See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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