Does life expectancy affect treatment of women aged 80 and older with early stage breast cancers?

Journal of Geriatric Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-16

  Schonberg, Mara A ^a   Marcantonio, Edward R ^a   Ngo, Long ^a   Silliman, Rebecca A ^b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Life expectancy; Older women; Radiation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84856343552     PISSN: 18794068     EISSN: 18794076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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