Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge
Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: the ultimate “primum non nocere” surgical challenge.Breast cancer in older individuals is increasingly encountered in clinical practice as the mean age of the world population increases. Underestimation of life expectancy and...
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| author | Gregorio Stratta Cinzia Monti Piermario Salvini Vittorio Vavassori Massimo Maria Grassi |
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| description | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: the ultimate “primum non nocere” surgical challenge.Breast cancer in older individuals is increasingly encountered in clinical practice as the mean age of the world population increases. Underestimation of life expectancy and fitness for therapy might result in age-related undertreatment. We report the case of a 103 years old woman affected by breast cancer. Multidisciplinary team work proved to be once again fundamental in the decision making process leading to the surgical operation of right breast central quadrantectomy performed in loco-regional anesthesia. To date, as far as we know, this is the oldest patient surgically treated for breast cancer. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13d85e2c5ce041ba8c8d98eb51e0de8f2022-12-21T18:45:32ZengElsevierAging and Health Research2667-03212021-12-0114100039Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challengeGregorio Stratta0Cinzia Monti1Piermario Salvini2Vittorio Vavassori3Massimo Maria Grassi4Corresponding author.; Breast Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, ItalyBreast Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, ItalyBreast Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, ItalyBreast Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, ItalyBreast Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, ItalyMultidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: the ultimate “primum non nocere” surgical challenge.Breast cancer in older individuals is increasingly encountered in clinical practice as the mean age of the world population increases. Underestimation of life expectancy and fitness for therapy might result in age-related undertreatment. We report the case of a 103 years old woman affected by breast cancer. Multidisciplinary team work proved to be once again fundamental in the decision making process leading to the surgical operation of right breast central quadrantectomy performed in loco-regional anesthesia. To date, as far as we know, this is the oldest patient surgically treated for breast cancer.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667032121000378BreastCancerElderlyMultidisciplinaryQuadrantectomy |
| spellingShingle | Gregorio Stratta Cinzia Monti Piermario Salvini Vittorio Vavassori Massimo Maria Grassi Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge Aging and Health Research Breast Cancer Elderly Multidisciplinary Quadrantectomy |
| title | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge |
| title_full | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge |
| title_fullStr | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge |
| title_short | Multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient: The ultimate “primum non nocere” challenge |
| title_sort | multidisciplinary management of breast cancer in a 103 years old patient the ultimate primum non nocere challenge |
| topic | Breast Cancer Elderly Multidisciplinary Quadrantectomy |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667032121000378 |
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