TY - JOUR
T1 - Breast Cancer Management Updates
T2 - Young and Older, Pregnant, or Male
AU - Dietz, Jill R.
AU - Partridge, Ann H.
AU - Gemignani, Mary L.
AU - Javid, Sara H.
AU - Kuerer, Henry M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Society of Surgical Oncology.
PY - 2015/10/29
Y1 - 2015/10/29
N2 - Every year, more and more patients fall into rare or extreme categories of breast cancer—young, elderly, pregnant, or male. Contributing factors may be improved risk assessment and screening techniques (especially of dense breast tissue), delayed childbearing, and the aging population. These patients can challenge usual medical decision making because of their unique situation. There might be a concern for the fetus, worry about future fertility, a question of local control in a man, or concern for overdiagnosis or overtreatment in an older patient. Because these populations are seldom included in the large breast cancer trials from which standard treatment recommendations are made, an update on management for young, elderly, pregnant, and male breast cancer patients may be helpful.
AB - Every year, more and more patients fall into rare or extreme categories of breast cancer—young, elderly, pregnant, or male. Contributing factors may be improved risk assessment and screening techniques (especially of dense breast tissue), delayed childbearing, and the aging population. These patients can challenge usual medical decision making because of their unique situation. There might be a concern for the fetus, worry about future fertility, a question of local control in a man, or concern for overdiagnosis or overtreatment in an older patient. Because these populations are seldom included in the large breast cancer trials from which standard treatment recommendations are made, an update on management for young, elderly, pregnant, and male breast cancer patients may be helpful.
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U2 - 10.1245/s10434-015-4755-1
DO - 10.1245/s10434-015-4755-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 26265366
AN - SCOPUS:84940446791
SN - 1068-9265
VL - 22
SP - 3219
EP - 3224
JO - Annals of surgical oncology
JF - Annals of surgical oncology
IS - 10
ER -