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Doctors surprised that older women patients can tolerate powerful treatment.(Brief Article)
2002 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oncologists may be anxious about treating older women with breast cancer in the same way that they would treat younger patients, but research conducted at the Institute Paoli Calmettes in Marseilles, France, has shown that older patients can tolerate powerful medication too.
Speaking at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress in Nice, France, Dr. Anne Chantal Braud called for a standardization in the treatment of the elderly. Braud and her team examined the effects of surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy in 179 women over the age of 70 years. The treatment is usually influenced by the physician's choice and patient's age instead of standard factors, such as the size of the tumor, node involvement and grade. However, physicians' choices ...
- Conference on older women leads to new AoA initiative. (Administration on Aging)
- Magazine article from: Aging September 22, 1994 700+ words
...initiative to improve the quality of life for older women, which will focus not only on health...Fernando Torres-Gil, the initiative on older women will focus on income security, housing...national conference on the problems of older women, which was held in Washington in September...
- Breast cancer specialists say it's about time older women got the care they...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Foreman, Judy August 26, 1994 700+ words
...specialists, he also feels that many older women are given mastectomies too readily...first place, these specialists say, older women are less likely than younger women to...mammograms are better at finding tumors in older women, whose breasts are less dense. While...
- Older women still not screened enough.(for breast cancer)
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly March 13, 2003 700+ words
...NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Older women continue to underutilize mammography...to previous reports, the majority of older women are not routinely screened for breast...Medicare since 1991. "Messages to both older women and to physicians should be strongly...
- Older women still not screened enough.
- Magazine article from: Managed Care Weekly March 10, 2003 700+ words
...NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Older women continue to underutilize mammography...to previous reports, the majority of older women are not routinely screened for breast...Medicare since 1991. "Messages to both older women and to physicians should be strongly...
- REVISIONING AGING: EMPOWERMENT OF OLDER WOMEN.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Sociology Feldman, Susan November 1, 2000 700+ words
REVISIONING AGING: EMPOWERMENT OF OLDER WOMEN Jenny Onyx, Rosemary Leonard and Rosslyn...is only by positioning themselves as older women, feminist academics and researchers...theorising first-hand experience as older women. Sadly in our community, a contradiction...
- A perspective on women in politics: political mobilization & older women.
- Newspaper article from: Generations Hudson, Robert B. Gonyea, Judith G. June 22, 1990 700+ words
The salience of older women in the world of politics has been...be low. The political presence of older women has been confined almost exclusively...fostering, even reifying, a view of older women as both dependent and powerless...
- Older women & substance abuse: there are no age limits when it comes to...
- Newspaper article from: National Women's Health Report December 1, 2006 700+ words
"Addiction among older women is hidden in their own shame, swept...signs of alcohol or drug abuse in older women were described to them. Instead...University of Maryland in Baltimore. In older women, the most commonly abused or misused...
- Don't forget older women's rights--HelpAge: in this fast-changing world, older...
- Magazine article from: Women in Action December 1, 2003 700+ words
According to HI, older women outnumber older men. In patriarchal societies, older women are more vulnerable since they are doubly...now age. HI's documented experiences of older women world-wide show this is particularly prevalent...
- Don't forget older women's rights--Helpage.(Issues)
- Newspaper article from: WE! March 1, 2004 700+ words
In this fast-changing world, older women are invisible in society, even in their...disadvantaged older people. According to HI, older women outnumber older men. In patriarchal societies, older women are more vulnerable since they are doubly...
- Older Women Lag in Mammogram Use, But Mailed Reminder Can Help; Pair of...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service February 27, 2003 700+ words
...School of Public Health, show that older women may need an extra push from their doctors...Medicare's computer database systems. "Older women seem to be using their age as a reason...anxiety-raising false positives because older women's breasts are less dense. Mammography...
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