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Most of Older Breast Cancer Patients Not Following Standard Treatment
December 27, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Women Health News
We in the medical community have long believed we were caring for these women appropriately and this study determines that these patients over age 65 are being woefully undertreated, said Dr. Owusu, who runs the ICCs geriatric oncology program and was lead author of the study. Going forward we need to develop strategies to improve breast cancer outcomes for these women.
The study looked at 961 women over the age of 65 who had early stage hormone positive breast cancer. Previous research has shown that five years of Tamoxifen is more effective than two years of use. However, information on tamoxifen discontinuation has been scanty. Dr. Owusu and her group sought to identify factors that predict premature tamoxifen continuation.
They found that nearly 50% of the women in the study discontinued tamoxifen before the completion of five years. The women most likely to stop taking the treatment were women over age 75, women who developed other medical illnesses during the first three years of follow-up and those who had their breast lumps removed but failed to receive radiation after their surgery. The discontinuation of Tamoxifen may result in earlier recurrences, and ultimately, increased breast cancer mortality.
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