There are inadequate numbers of older women enrolled in breast cancer clinical trials. Both physicians and patients should explore and define the barriers to clinical trial participation and develop successful interventions to overcome them.doi:10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49197.xPearlstone, David B...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship of health insurance status and delivery systems to breast cancer outcomes — stage at diagnosis, treatment selected, survival — focusing on comparisons among women aged 65 or more having Medicare alone, Medicare/Medicaid, or Medicare with group model HMO, non...
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer found in elderly women. A woman has a one-in-eight chance of developing breast cancer over her lifetime, according to theNational Cancer Institute. The older a woman is, the more likely it is she will be diagnosed with the disease. On ave...
“The goal of this work was to quantify the risk of overdiagnosis associated with screening mammography among older women,” said first author of the paper, Ilana Richman, assistant professor of medicine (general medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and member of Yale Cancer Center.“Overdiagnosi...
Family history of breast cancer continues to significantly increase chances of developing invasive breast tumors in aging women—those ages 65 and older, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The findings could impact mammography scr
UPDATED// Althoughmammographyis often not recommended for women 75 years and older, it might be beneficial for this age group, according to a studypublished onlineAugust 5 inRadiology. Mammography-detectedbreast cancerin women 75 years and older has a number of advantages over breast cancer detecte...
Older women diagnosed with breast cancer in England are less likely to survive their disease than those in Belgium, Poland, Ireland and the Netherlands according to research published today in the British Journal of Cancer.
There has been a recent surge of interest in the general topic of how older patients should be treated with various forms of malignancy, with particular focus on the management of breast cancer. This group of patients has been neglected in the past, with a failure to recruit them to clinical...
Older Breast Cancer Survivors Major strides in the treatment of breast cancer are welcome news. Many women diagnosed with breast cancer can now look forward to a complete cure. Five-year survival rates are higher than 80%, and 20-year survival approaches 60%. The result: An increasing number...
About 1 in 40 postmenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 65 have cancer-associated mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, according to a Stanford-led study of more than 4,500 participants in the long-running Women's Health Initiative.