Improved survival of older patients with advanced breast cancer due to an increase in systemic treatments: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The number of older patients with breast cancer is rapidly increasing. A previous study showed that between 1990 and 2005, the survival of older patients with breast cancer did not improve in contrast to younger patients. In recent years, scientific evidence in the older age group has increased and specific guidelines for older women with breast cancer have been developed. The aim of this study was to assess changes in survival outcomes of older patients with breast cancer.

Patients and methods

All patients with breast cancer between 2000 and 2017 were included from the Netherlands cancer registry. We assessed changes in treatments using logistic regression. We calculated changes in relative survival as proxy for breast cancer mortality, stratified by age and stage.<

SUBMITTER: de Glas N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6790206 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature