Treatment strategies and predicting prognoses in elderly patients with breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The prevalence of breast cancer in elderly women (older than 80 years) is expected to rise more dramatically than its incidence. In this study, we evaluated the evidence for treatment guidelines for elderly breast cancer patients.

Patients and methods

All included patients were enrolled from 2010 to 2013 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. The Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Harrell's C statistic were used to perform comparisons. In addition, a propensity score analysis was used to avoid bias caused by data selection criteria. Prognostic factors were selected as nomogram parameters to develop a model to predict survival.

Results

A total of 16998 patients included in the SEER database from 2010 to 2013 had breas

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6130285 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature