Ninety-one assessable elderly women (365 years) with advanced breast cancer were treated with prednisolone 15 mg (or cortisone 75 mg) daily after primary endocrine treatment (estrogens, androgens or tamoxifen). Thirteen (14%) achieved an objective regression, and 19 (21%) others showed no change for
Management of elderly patients with primary breast cancer
โ Scribed by Leonard M. Toonkel; Ivor Fix; Lawrence H. Jacobson; Norman Bamberg
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 536 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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