Place of organ-sparing surgery in the treatment of early breast cancer in elderly and senile patients

Abstract

The paper analyzes the results of treatment in elderly and senile patients with early breast cancer in relation to the scope of surgical treat- ment. The study enrolled 425 patients receiving the treatment as sector resection, the latter with lymph node dissection, and r adical mastec- tomy. According to the results of a follow-up, a group of patients treated by sector resection showed the best relapse-free sur vival rates and minimum breast cancer mortality.

Keywords

• breast cancer
• elderly age
• surgical treatment
• organ-sparing operations