By: Liam Davenport From: medscape.com Older women who have had breast cancer frequently undergo annual surveillance mammography, even if there is only a small risk of their developing a second cancer or if they have other mortality risks associated with age and comorbidities. This ongoing annual surveillance with mammography may be doing more harm than good, warn researchers. In a study …
Loneliness Predicts Physical Decline in Older Patients With Breast Cancer
By: Jessica Nye, PhD From: oncologynurseadvisor.com Loneliness associates with physical decline in older patients with breast cancer, according to results of a study published in The Oncologist. The most common cancer in women is breast cancer, and nearly one-third of patients with breast cancer are older than 70 years. This subset of older patients may have different trends in physical …
Optimizing Treatment for Older Patients With HR+ Low-Risk Breast Cancer
By:: Charles Bankhead From: medpagetoday.com Five days of radiotherapy, five years of hormonal therapy, or somewhere in between? The time has come to revisit the practice of omitting adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for older patients with early hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer and instead consider a more individualized approach to RT and hormonal therapy, authors of a review article argued. Modern …
Advising older patients against breast cancer surgery is ‘age bias’, UK study finds
By: Linda Geddes From: theguardian.com Doctors may be steering older women away from certain breast cancer treatments due to “well-meaning but misplaced beliefs” about their preferences and fitness to undergo surgery, a study suggests. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with about 56,000 people diagnosed and 11,500 dying from it each year. Although survival rates have …
Yale Research Reveals “Biologically Older” Tissue in Patients with Breast Cancer
Source: Yale School of Medicine From: yale.edu An analysis by Yale Cancer Center researchers identified accelerated genetic aging in breast tissue adjacent to breast cancer tumors. Their findings demonstate that adjacent breast tissue is “biologically older” than the chronologic age of the patient, a discovery that may explain why some women develop breast cancer at younger age and may also …
Older Patients With Low-Risk DCIS May Not Benefit From Surgery, Radiation
By: Charles Bankhead From: medpagetoday.com Low rate of invasive recurrence, benefits of surgery and RT limited to patients under 70 Most women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) had a significantly lower risk of invasive breast cancer after surgery, with or without radiation therapy (RT), as compared with no treatment, a large retrospective study showed. Among women up to 69 …
Skip Chemo for Older Patients With HER2+ Breast Cancer?
By: Charles Bankhead From: medpagetoday.com Less than one-month survival loss at 3 years with trastuzumab monotherapy Adjuvant trastuzumab (Herceptin) failed to demonstrate noninferiority versus trastuzumab plus chemotherapy for older patients with early HER2-positive breast cancer, but trastuzumab alone still warrants consideration for selected patients, investigators in a randomized trial concluded. Single-agent trastuzumab resulted in a 3-year disease-free survival (DFS) of …
Oncogeriatric Approach Linked to More Treatment, Improved Outcomes
By: Christina Bennett, MS From: cancertherapyadvisor.com Older patients with early-stage breast cancer who were treated using an oncogeriatric approach were more likely to receive adjuvant treatments and had improved clinical outcomes compared with patients who were treated with the standard of care, found a retrospective observational study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. The study included patients 70 years …
First large study details cognitive outcomes among older breast cancer patients
Source: Georgetown University Medical Center From: sciencedaily.com The first large U.S. study of cognition in older breast cancer patients found that within the first two years after diagnosis and treatment, most women do not experience cancer-related cognitive problems. Researchers also observed a troubling trend that needs further exploration — the small sub-set of women who experienced cognitive decline were unique …
Finances Weigh Heavily on Older Cancer Patients
By: Charles Bankhead From: medpagetoday.com Despite access to Medicare in most cases, older patients with cancer remained deeply concerned about financial burdens from their medical care, a survey of almost 1,500 patients showed. Financial hardship had a consistent and significantly negative impact on older patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Symptoms, disability, lack of emotional support, and other factors also …
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