The year a breast cancer patient turns 70 can make a big difference in the kind of treatment their doctor recommends.
The year when a breast cancer patient turns 70 can make a big difference in the kind of treatment her doctor recommends, according to a study published in theThere are plenty of good reasons why health care providers use guidelines and rules of thumb to guide their health care recommendations.
"There are a lot of rules of thumb ... we use in all of our decision-making throughout life, even in medicine, and I think it's super important we don't overweigh any one factor and we look at the whole picture."Researchers looked at records of more than 500,000 women with breast cancer who, regardless of age, should have received a recommendation for either radiation or endocrine therapy after surgery, Evans said.
Instead, they saw a steep cliff occur between age 69 and 70. More than 90% of those who were ages 50 to 69 were recommended for additional therapy.It's important to note that, in some breast cancer patients, clinical trials showed older women hadEvans said this study controlled for that, only including women with certain types of breast cancer that put women at higher risk and where clinical guidelines still call for additional therapy after surgery.
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