[Clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients with breast cancer over 65 years of age].
OBJECTIVE
To study clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of elderly women with breast cancer.


METHODS
The data of 399 patients with breast cancer over 65 years of age was analyzed retrospectively in the Cancer Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from January 1989 to December 2003.


RESULTS
Curative resection was performed for all patients, including modified radical mastectomy 277 (69.4%), radical mastectomy 12 (3.0%), breast-conserving therapy 59 (15.8%), mammectomy 24 (6.0%), breast segmentectomy 25 (6.3%) and breast segmentectomy with sentinel node biopsy 2 (0.5%). Major pathological type was invasive ductal carcinoma (337/399, 85.5%). The positive rates of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) were 71.4% and 69.6%, respectively. The overall 5-and 10- year survival rates were 78.9% and 56.3%, respectively. Univariate analysis showed that ER status, PR status, T stage, lymph node status and histological grade were significant statistically (P < 0.05). The multivariate analysis showed ER status, lymph node status and histological grade were the independent prognostic factors.


CONCLUSIONS
Elderly women with breast cancer should be given multimodality therapy. Surgery and endocrine therapy are crucial, but the surgical style should be individuation. ER status, lymph node status and histological grade were the independent prognostic factors.
Gao
Ji-Dong
JD
Department of Abdominal Surgery, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China.
Zhang
Bao-Ning
BN
Wang
Xiang
X
Wang
Jing
J
Bi
Xiao-Feng
XF
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone / Q000378:metabolism; D012189:Retrospective Studies
D011960:Receptors, Estrogen; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone