Weathering the Storm: Managing Older Adults With Breast Cancer Amid COVID-19 and Beyond.

ABSTRACT: Caring for older patients with breast cancer presents unique clinical considerations because of preexisting and competing comorbidity, the potential for treatment-related toxicity, and the consequent impact on functional status. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, treatment decision making for older patients is especially challenging and encourages us to refocus our treatment priorities. While we work to avoid treatment delays and maintain therapeutic benefit, we also need to minimize the risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposures, myelosuppression, general chemotherapy toxicity, and functional decline. Herein, we propose multidisciplinary care considerations for the aging patient with breast cancer, with the goal to promote a team-based, multidisc

SUBMITTER: Freedman RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7313961 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature