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Breast Cancer in the Elderly: Treatment of Metastatic Disease
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1Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA.
Cancer Control : Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
Metastatic breast cancer in the elderly is an incurable chronic disease. Comorbidity affects outcome significantly and is evaluated before treatments. A variety of treatment approaches are available, including medication, hormones, and cytotoxic chemotherapy, that can provide significant palliation.