Recently, there have been spaces for senior citizens over 70-year-old woman, because of breast cancer tumor is too large and can not be immediate surgery, coupled with past stroke lead to mobility, such a past, we will take pre-operative chemotherapy, so that tumor shrinkage after surgery. But the elderly are often associated with other major diseases, so to carry out pre-operative chemotherapy, it is bound to have a high chance of serious complications.
This is the elderly in 2007 of breast cancer treatment to reach a new consensus. At present, hormone replacement therapy as a result of advances make it possible for this situation can be the use of hormone therapy to control local tumor and the tumor is reduced, and thus an opportunity for less invasive surgery; this will risk than other therapies to small Multi.
Over the past can be used in hormone replacement therapy is the drug Tamoxifen, but resistance is likely to have its shortcomings. A new generation of hormone replacement therapy drugs - aromatase inhibitors transformation (AI) is the better choice.
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