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The Association Between Medication Use in Older Women with Early-Stage Operable Primary Breast Cancer and Decision Regarding Primary Treatment (2023)
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Background Polypharmacy is one factor contributing to increased mortality, hospitalization, and adverse drug reactions in older adults. The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of polypharmacy in a cohort of older women with early-stage op... Read More about The Association Between Medication Use in Older Women with Early-Stage Operable Primary Breast Cancer and Decision Regarding Primary Treatment.

The impact of age on health utility values for older women with early-stage breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-regression (2022)
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Introduction: An increasing number of postmenopausal women are diagnosed with breast cancer at an older age (≥ 70years). There is a lack of synthesised health utility data to support decision-making for managing breast cancer in this older population... Read More about The impact of age on health utility values for older women with early-stage breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-regression.

The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on the quality of breast cancer care in EUSOMA-certified breast centres (2022)
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Aims: We analysed the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19) on the quality of breast cancer care in certified EUSOMA (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists) breast centres. Materials and methods: The results of the EUSOMA quality indic... Read More about The impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on the quality of breast cancer care in EUSOMA-certified breast centres.

Molecular Biomarker Expression in Window of Opportunity Studies for Oestrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer—A Systematic Review of the Literature (2022)
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Window of opportunity (WoO) trials create the opportunity to demonstrate pharmacodynamic parameters of a drug in vivo and have increasing use in breast cancer research. Most breast cancer tumours are oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+), leading to the... Read More about Molecular Biomarker Expression in Window of Opportunity Studies for Oestrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer—A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Updated SIOG COVID-19 working group recommendations on COVID-19 vaccination among older adults with cancer (2022)
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Improving outcomes for women aged 70 years or above with early breast cancer: research programme including a cluster RCT (2022)
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Background: In breast cancer management, age-related practice variation is widespread, with older women having lower rates of surgery and chemotherapy than younger women, based on the premise of reduced treatment tolerance and benefit. This may contr... Read More about Improving outcomes for women aged 70 years or above with early breast cancer: research programme including a cluster RCT.

Chemotherapy and gene expression profiling in older early luminal breast cancer patients: An International Society of Geriatric Oncology systematic review (2022)
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Background: The benefit of chemotherapy for older patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative early breast cancer (EBC) is a key area of debate. Gene expression profiling (GEP) may identify p... Read More about Chemotherapy and gene expression profiling in older early luminal breast cancer patients: An International Society of Geriatric Oncology systematic review.

Systematic review of the evidence sources applied to cost-effectiveness analyses for older women with primary breast cancer (2022)
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Objective: To appraise the sources of evidence and methods to estimate input parameter values in decision-analytic model-based cost-effectiveness analyses of treatments for primary breast cancer (PBC) in older patients (≥70years old). Methods: Two el... Read More about Systematic review of the evidence sources applied to cost-effectiveness analyses for older women with primary breast cancer.

Challenges in Geriatric Oncology—A Surgeon’s Perspective (2022)
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As our global population ages, we will see more cancer diagnoses in older adults. Surgery is an important treatment modality for solid tumours, forming the majority of all cancers. However, the management of older adults with cancer can be more compl... Read More about Challenges in Geriatric Oncology—A Surgeon’s Perspective.

An overview of the Nottingham Research Programme on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women: breast cancer in older women (2021)
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The incidence of breast cancer increases with age. Despite this, most research in this field is aimed at the younger patient. Preliminary studies have shown that older women with breast cancer have distinct biological features compared to their young... Read More about An overview of the Nottingham Research Programme on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women: breast cancer in older women.

Does Breast Cancer Surgery Impact Functional Status and Independence in Older Patients? A Narrative Review (2021)
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Surgery is the recommended treatment modality for primary breast cancer. Breast cancer surgery is non-visceral; therefore, it is often assumed that the subsequent impact on functional status in older women is less significant compared to other cancer... Read More about Does Breast Cancer Surgery Impact Functional Status and Independence in Older Patients? A Narrative Review.

Concordance between core needle biopsy and surgical excision specimens for Ki-67 in breast cancer–a systematic review of the literature (2021)
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Aims: The biomarkers oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) are routinely measured in patients with breast cancer with international consensus on how they should be interpreted. There i... Read More about Concordance between core needle biopsy and surgical excision specimens for Ki-67 in breast cancer–a systematic review of the literature.

American Society of Clinical Oncology 2021 Podcast: HR+, HER2− Breast Cancer (2021)
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Process evaluation of the Bridging the Age Gap in Breast Cancer decision support intervention cluster randomised trial (2021)
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Background The Bridging the Age Gap in Breast Cancer research programme sought to improve treatment decision-making for older women with breast cancer by developing and testing, in a cluster randomised trial (n = 1339 patients), two decision support... Read More about Process evaluation of the Bridging the Age Gap in Breast Cancer decision support intervention cluster randomised trial.

Biology of primary breast cancer in older women beyond routine biomarkers (2021)
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Purpose: There are numerous biomarkers which may have potential predictive and prognostic significance in breast cancer. This is extremely important in older adults, who may opt for less aggressive therapy. This work outlines the literature on biolog... Read More about Biology of primary breast cancer in older women beyond routine biomarkers.

Observational cohort study in older women with early breast cancer: Use of radiation therapy and impact on health-related quality of life and mortality (2021)
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Background: Radiotherapy reduces in-breast recurrence risk in early breast cancer (EBC) in older women. This benefit may be small and should be balanced against treatment effect and holistic patient assessment. This study described treatment patterns... Read More about Observational cohort study in older women with early breast cancer: Use of radiation therapy and impact on health-related quality of life and mortality.

Updated recommendations regarding the management of older patients with breast cancer: a joint paper from the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) (2021)
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Breast cancer is increasingly prevalent in older adults and is a substantial part of routine oncology practice. However, management of breast cancer in this population is challenging because the disease is highly heterogeneous and there is insufficie... Read More about Updated recommendations regarding the management of older patients with breast cancer: a joint paper from the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG).

Bridging The Age Gap: observational cohort study of effects of chemotherapy and trastuzumab on recurrence, survival and quality of life in older women with early breast cancer (2021)
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Background: Chemotherapy improves outcomes for high risk early breast cancer (EBC) patients but is infrequently offered to older individuals. This study determined if there are fit older patients with high-risk disease who may benefit from chemothera... Read More about Bridging The Age Gap: observational cohort study of effects of chemotherapy and trastuzumab on recurrence, survival and quality of life in older women with early breast cancer.

Cost-Effectiveness Modeling of Surgery Plus Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Versus Primary Endocrine Therapy Alone in UK Women Aged 70 and Over With Early Breast Cancer (2021)
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Objectives: Approximately 20% of UK women aged 70+ with early breast cancer receive primary endocrine therapy (PET) instead of surgery. PET reduces surgical morbidity but with some survival decrement. To complement and utilize a treatment dependent p... Read More about Cost-Effectiveness Modeling of Surgery Plus Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Versus Primary Endocrine Therapy Alone in UK Women Aged 70 and Over With Early Breast Cancer.

The impact of breast cancer surgery on functional status in older women – A systematic review of the literature (2021)
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Primary endocrine therapy as treatment of breast cancer is only recommended in older women with limited life expectancy. However, many older women opt for endocrine therapy due to concerns regarding frailty and potential decline in function after sur... Read More about The impact of breast cancer surgery on functional status in older women – A systematic review of the literature.