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Patients Over 80 Benefit From Colorectal Ca Screening, Treatment
Patients Over 80 Benefit From Colorectal Ca Screening, Treatment
F. Lowry
20080107
2008 Feb 7
Elsevier Global Medical News
Patients Over 80 Benefit From Colorectal Ca Screening, Treatment
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Feb 7, F. Lowry
ORLANDO (EGMN) - Colorectal cancer screening plays an important role in cancer prevention and detection, not just in the "young-old," but also in the "old-old" - people in their eighties and beyond.And if a cancer is found, the elderly can also derive considerable benefit from treatments including surgery and chemotherapy, two presenters said at a meeting on gastrointestinal cancers sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.A retrospective review of 1,390 patients aged 80 years and older...