Breast cancer has today become one of the severely affecting illnesses among women. Though reports have highlighted that the illness has affected fewer women since past two decades, a new study has recently revealed that the improvement rates in the survivals of the illness have become slow especially among the oldest women suffering with the disease.
Researchers have explained in their statements that the elderly women, aged 75 and above, who are suffering from breast cancer could not show much aggressiveness in treatment as is usually cited among the younger women age group, which could at some point of time hamper the affect of the treatment on their body.
The above results of the study have been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Researchers have stated some more reasons behind their statement:
Age factor plays a significant role in one?s body and it could be possible that the disease slowly grows in elderly group, which shortens the life expectancy rate and fails to give enough hope to the elderly patient for the treatment and their life after that.
It might be possible that the older women find it more difficult to tolerate powerful medications as compared to the younger ones.
?You don't want to treat older women so aggressively that you actually cause more problems from the treatment than from the disease. When they are treated with chemotherapy, it probably doesn't quite do the same as it might in younger women?, said Dr. Benjamin Smith, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who worked on the study.
In context to the above issues, Guidelines from the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force have also bought some altercations, according to which, no more calls would be given to women over 74 years of age for a regular breast cancer screening.
Source: http://topnews.us/content/244717-breast-cancer-survival-rate-lesser-among-elderly-women
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