Eggemann, Holm and Ignatov, Tanja and Geyken, Christina Henrike and Seitz, Stephan and Ignatov, Atanas (2018) Management of elderly women with cervical cancer. JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 144 (5). pp. 961-967. ISSN 0171-5216, 1432-1335
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Background Elderly women with cervical cancer receive less therapy in comparison with their younger counterparts. The exact reason(s) for this treatment strategy remains unclear. Patients and methods We performed a multicenter, retrospective registry-based study of 1559 patients with cervical cancer. The primary outcome was the reason for not performing the indicated treatment. Results Median follow-up was 67.8 months. A total of 956 women were eligible for analysis: 693 (64.2%) were younger than 60 years and 387 (35.8%) were aged 61 years old and older. Elderly women were more likely to have undifferentiated cervical cancer at an advanced stage. For early stage (stage IA1-IIA), tumors patients 61 years old and older were less likely to receive surgery [odds ratio (OR) 0.39; 95% CI 0.20-0.77] and radiochemotherapy (OR 0.37; 95% CI 0.21-0.66) compared with the group of patients aged < 60 years. The rate of lymphadenectomy was similar in both age groups. Patients 61 years old and older with advanced stage (IIB-IV) cervical cancer were also less likely to receive surgery [odds ratio (OR) 0.42; 95% CI 0.27-0.66], lymphadenectomy (OR 0.30; 95% CI 0.12-0.51) and radiochemotherapy (OR 0.31; 95% CI 0.20-0.48) compared with patients aged < 60 years. Notably, the rate of indicated but not performed therapies proportionally increased with an increase in patient age and the most important reason for this phenomenon was the failing of recommendation. Conclusions Elderly women with cervical cancer are undertreated and this is more likely because the therapy was not recommended.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SURVIVAL; AGE; OUTCOMES; STAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; PATTERNS; CARE; Cervical cancer; Elderly; Radiation; Lymphadenectomy; Radical surgery |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe (Schwerpunkt Frauenheilkunde) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2020 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2020 08:42 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14678 |
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