Controversies of radiation therapy omission in elderly women with early stage invasive breast cancer

Early stage invasive breast cancer is a disease that is prevalent in the elderly population. Data regarding radiation omission for elderly population is based on patients’ age. Given the increased life expectancy, data on individualizing treatment decisions based on multiple tumor and patient relate...

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Autores principales: Abu-Gheida, Ibrahim, Hammoudeh, Lubna, Abdel-Razeq, Hikmat
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/PMC8798144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35117955
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.06.47
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description Early stage invasive breast cancer is a disease that is prevalent in the elderly population. Data regarding radiation omission for elderly population is based on patients’ age. Given the increased life expectancy, data on individualizing treatment decisions based on multiple tumor and patient related factors other than age only is emerging. This review aims to analyze published data to provide clinicians with a general oversight on approaching this question.
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spelling pubmed-87981442022-02-02 Controversies of radiation therapy omission in elderly women with early stage invasive breast cancer Abu-Gheida, Ibrahim Hammoudeh, Lubna Abdel-Razeq, Hikmat Transl Cancer Res Review Article Early stage invasive breast cancer is a disease that is prevalent in the elderly population. Data regarding radiation omission for elderly population is based on patients’ age. Given the increased life expectancy, data on individualizing treatment decisions based on multiple tumor and patient related factors other than age only is emerging. This review aims to analyze published data to provide clinicians with a general oversight on approaching this question. AME Publishing Company 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8798144/ /pubmed/35117955 http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.06.47 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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http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tcr.2019.06.47
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