Octogenarians’ Breast Cancer Is Associated with an Unfavorable Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Worse Disease-Free Survival

Elderly patients are known to have a worse prognosis for breast cancer. This is commonly blamed on their medical comorbidities and access to care. However, in addition to these social issues, we hypothesized that the extreme elderly (octogenarians—patients over 80 years old) have biologically worse...

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Main Authors: Maiko Okano, Masanori Oshi, Swagoto Mukhopadhyay, Qianya Qi, Li Yan, Itaru Endo, Toru Ohtake, Kazuaki Takabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Cancers
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/12/2933