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New Validated Risk Score Predicts Chemotherapy Toxicity in Older Patients With Breast Cancer – Cancer Therapy Advisor
CARG-BC risk score was developed to stratify risk of chemotherapy toxicity specific to patients 65 and older with early-stage breast cancer.
A new prediction score for grade 3-5 chemotherapy toxicity in patients with breast cancer was developed during a multicenter, prospective cohort study. The findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Existing tools for predicting the risk of chemotherapy toxicity in patients older than 65 with early-stage breast cancer are not reliable because they were developed and validated using younger patients, and heterogeneous populations with various cancer subtypes, stages, and chemotherapy…
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