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Breast cancer treatment can be safely reduced in women over the age of 70 – News-Medical.Net
Oncologists faced with treating older women with breast cancer often must decide if the treatment may be more detrimental than the cancer.
Oncologists faced with treating older women with breast cancer often must decide if the treatment may be more detrimental than the cancer.
A study published today in JAMA Network Open by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sheds new light on this choice and suggests the rate of cancer recurrence or survival may be no different in treated vs. untreated elderly patients diagnosed in the early stages of the cancer diagnosed most commonly in…
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