[PDF] Top 20 The decision making process for senior cancer patients: treatment allocation of older women with operable breast cancer in the UK

... that patients with operable breast cancer should be treated with surgery, and not PET, “irrespective of age” unless this is precluded by comorbidities 14 ; whilst the International Society of ... See full document

... suggesting older patients prefer a more passive, doctor-centred role in treatment DM [23-26], this study identified a range of preferred DM styles among older women with operable ... See full document

... with older women who had been offered a choice of PET or surgery from five UK hospital ...clinics. Women ’ s information and support needs, their breast cancer diagnosis and ... See full document

... of decision support interventions to assist in the treatment decision making for early breast cancer in older ...patient decision aids (primary endocrine therapy vs ... See full document

... to older patients being more passive in decision making [4,20, 27] with a tendency to delegate responsibility to their doctors, family and friends ...the women in this study stated that ... See full document

... Breast cancer affects 13000 UK women over age 70 annually and causes the deaths of 6733 per ...year. Patients over 70 years of age have seen less than half of the reduction in ... See full document

... influence treatment choice, as discussed above and examining how these vary in relation to treatment may provide evidence to help explain the variability in treatment of older patients ... See full document

... This DCE has confirmed the influence of several predictable factors on HCP decision making in the management of older patients with operable breast cancer. To our ... See full document

... of decision support interventions to assist in the treatment decision making for early breast cancer in older ...patient decision aids (primary endocrine therapy vs ... See full document

... This DCE has confirmed the influence of several predictable factors on HCP decision making in the management of older patients with operable breast cancer. To our ... See full document

... 000 UK women over the age of 70 derived from cancer registry ...guide treatment decision making and its outputs can be printed off in a patient facing format that could be used ... See full document

... in older women, comorbidities and frailty rates are higher, and which will increase the risks of some breast cancer treatments, such as surgery and chemotherapy, many older women ... See full document

... elderly patients may prioritise quality of life over quantity [4] and patient choice is commonly stated as a reason for treating patients with PET [10, ...surgical treatment are unlikely to be due to ... See full document

... A UK-based audit of management protocols in older women with early operable primary breast cancer reported that 40% of them were treated by non-operative ...primary breast ... See full document

... We used Cox regression models to compute crude and adjusted hazard ratios (HR) including 95% confi- dence intervals (95% CI) comparing the risk of recur- rence and all-cause mortality, respectively, according to thyroid ... See full document

... bone cancer for which there was a low cure rate, a 7-year life-expectancy, very little research, and no approved drugs, Sommer believed that the patient can have the power to make a difference in research for the ... See full document

... urban women, decision to visit a health facil- ity on the discovery they had breast cancer was influenced by their knowledge and information about breast ...cancer. Women ... See full document

... well-tolerated treatment option in a popula- tion of Chinese women with HER2-positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer who who have had disease progres- sion following other ... See full document

... development process in which their expertise is incorporated in the development and implementation, indicating that eHealth implementation starts at the beginning of the development process ...the ... See full document

... of treatment choices and, therefore, it may also play a pivotal role in localized prostate cancer treatment ...impulsive decision making (Wittmann & Paulus, 2008), which may lead to ... See full document