Benefit of endocrine therapy in elderly women with low risk hormone receptor positive breast cancer?
The results, which Fox Chase researchers presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s 56th Annual Meeting on September 14, suggest that low-risk patients over 65 years old with small tumors may achieve comparable survival after treatment with adjuvant radiation therapy alone — without undergoing endocrine therapy. “When they’re treated with adjuvant radiation therapy alone, elderly women with small, low risk tumors may have acceptable results,” says Colin T. …
