Adjuvant chemotherapy in older and younger women with lymph node-positive breast cancer

Authors :: Muss, Hyman B.
Cirrincione, Constance
Budman, Daniel
Hudis, Clifford
Wheeler, Judith
Berry, Donald
Woolf, Susan
Weiss, Raymond B.
Henderson, I Craig
Wood, William C.
Cohen, Harvey
Norton, Larry
Source :: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association. March 2, 2005, Vol. 293 Issue 9, p1073, 9 p.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: A study was conducted to compare the benefits and toxic effects of adjuvant chemotraphy among breast cancer patients in age groups of 50 years of younger, 51 to 64 years, and 65 years or older. It was revealed that age alone should not be a contraindication to the use of optimal chemotraphy regiments in older women who are in good general health.

Subjects :: Chemotherapy -- Health aspects
Aged women -- Health aspects
Young women -- Health aspects
Breast cancer -- Diagnosis
Breast cancer -- Care and treatment
Cancer -- Chemotherapy
Cancer -- Health aspects

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