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Adapting care for older cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recommendations from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) COVID-19 Working Group (2020)
Journal Article
Battisti, N. M. L., Mislang, A. R., Cooper, L., O'Donovan, A., Audisio, R. A., Cheung, K. L., Sarrió, R. G., Stauder, R., Soto-Perez-de-Celis, E., Jaklitsch, M., Williams, G. R., O'Hanlon, S., Alam, M., Cairo, C., Colloca, G., Gil, L. A., Sattar, S., Kantilal, K., Russo, C., Lichtman, S. M., …Wildiers, H. (2020). Adapting care for older cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recommendations from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) COVID-19 Working Group. Journal of Geriatric Oncology, 11(8), 1190-1198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2020.07.008

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. The COVID-19 pandemic poses a barrier to equal and evidence-based management of cancer in older adults. The International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) formed a panel of experts to develop consensus recommendations on the... Read More about Adapting care for older cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recommendations from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) COVID-19 Working Group.

Special issues for older women with primary breast cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Parks, R. M., Jauhari, Y., Morgan, J., Wyld, L., & Cheung, K.-L. (2020). Special issues for older women with primary breast cancer. Breast Cancer Management, 9(3), Article BMT43. https://doi.org/10.2217/bmt-2020-0022

It is estimated that the number of older women living with breast cancer will quadruple by 2040. Despite this, there is a lack of strong evidence and guidelines to support management decisions for this population.

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Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study (2020)
Journal Article
Morgan, J. L., George, J., Holmes, G., Martin, C., Reed, M. W. R., Ward, S., Walters, S. J., Cheung, K. L., Audisio, R. A., Wyld, L., & Bridging the Age Gap Trial Management Team. (2020). Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study. British Journal of Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11617

© 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of BJS Society Ltd Background: Breast cancer surgery in older women is variable and sometimes non-standard owing to concerns about morbidity. Bridging the A... Read More about Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study.

A Randomized, Open-label, Presurgical, Window-of-Opportunity Study Comparing the Pharmacodynamic Effects of the Novel Oral SERD AZD9496 with Fulvestrant in Patients with Newly Diagnosed ER+ HER2- Primary Breast Cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Robertson, J. F., Evans, A., Henschen, S., Kirwan, C. C., Jahan, A., Kenny, L. M., Dixon, J. M., Schmid, P., Kothari, A., Mohamed, O., Fasching, P. A., Cheung, K. L., Wuerstlein, R., Carroll, D., Klinowska, T., Lindemann, J. P., MacDonald, A., Mather, R., Maudsley, R., Moschetta, M., …Harbeck, N. (2020). A Randomized, Open-label, Presurgical, Window-of-Opportunity Study Comparing the Pharmacodynamic Effects of the Novel Oral SERD AZD9496 with Fulvestrant in Patients with Newly Diagnosed ER+ HER2- Primary Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 26(16), 4242-4249. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-3387

©2020 American Association for Cancer Research. PURPOSE: Fulvestrant, the first-in-class selective estrogen receptor (ER) degrader (SERD), is clinically effective in patients with ER+ breast cancer, but it has administration and pharmacokinetic limit... Read More about A Randomized, Open-label, Presurgical, Window-of-Opportunity Study Comparing the Pharmacodynamic Effects of the Novel Oral SERD AZD9496 with Fulvestrant in Patients with Newly Diagnosed ER+ HER2- Primary Breast Cancer.

A multi-centre study using comprehensive geriatric assessment to determine differences between older women with operable breast cancer undergoing surgery or non-operative treatment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parks, R., Howard, P., Zahit, R., Kayani, A., Lakshmanan, R., Tang, S., Hall, L., Blake, H., Morgan, D., Winterbottom, L., Jahan, M., & Cheung, K. A multi-centre study using comprehensive geriatric assessment to determine differences between older women with operable breast cancer undergoing surgery or non-operative treatment. Presented at 2nd UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium, Birmingham, UK

Aims/Objectives: Shared decision making on the choice of treatment for older women with breast cancer involves many factors. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is recognised to have a role in older patients with cancer, but how this should be u... Read More about A multi-centre study using comprehensive geriatric assessment to determine differences between older women with operable breast cancer undergoing surgery or non-operative treatment.