Primary endocrine therapy for early operable primary breast cancer in elderly women - A large series from a single institution

Care of the older woman with primary breast cancer: a sign of the times?

“…For example, studies demonstrating a 90% 5‐year survival rate in women over the age of 80 treated with primary endocrine therapy rather than surgery when their cancers demonstrated oestrogen receptor positivity (Syed et al. 2009), and a 98% clinical benefit rate in those treated with primary endocrine therapy alone (Al‐Khyatt et al. 2009).…”