Maltoni Roberta, Ravaioli Sara, Bronte Giuseppe, Mazza Massimiliano, Cerchione Claudio, Massa Ilaria, Balzi William, Cortesi Michela, Zanoni Michele, Bravaccini Sara
IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", Meldola, Italy.
IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", Meldola, Italy.
Transl Oncol. 2022 Jan;15(1):101300. doi: 10.1016/j.tranon.2021.101300. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
Ma and colleagues reported in their study on 12,004 elderly patients published on Breast J. 2020, that adjuvant chemotherapy was not associated with overall survival. Given the toxicities associated with systemic treatments, caution recommendation or omission of chemotherapy may be considered in elderly patient selection especially when comorbidities are present. We agree with authors final conclusions but we want to highlight that to define the adjuvant therapy in BC elderly patients several factors need to be taken into account. One of the main issues is the lack of universal and unique guidelines to define elderly patients. In clinical practice it can be very difficult to estimate the benefit/risk ratio in elderly patients because chemotherapy-induced toxicity is worse than in younger individuals. For these reasons, beyond comorbidities, the choice of adjuvant therapy for elderly patients must also be based both on chronological and biological age. Moreover, the multidisciplinary team for the elderly patient evaluation should include both the geriatrician and the molecular biologist.
马及其同事在2020年发表于《乳腺杂志》上的一项针对12004名老年患者的研究中报告称,辅助化疗与总生存期无关。鉴于全身治疗相关的毒性,在老年患者选择中,尤其是存在合并症时,可考虑谨慎推荐或省略化疗。我们同意作者的最终结论,但我们想强调的是,要确定老年乳腺癌患者的辅助治疗,需要考虑几个因素。主要问题之一是缺乏定义老年患者的通用且独特的指南。在临床实践中,估计老年患者的获益/风险比可能非常困难,因为化疗引起的毒性比年轻个体更严重。出于这些原因,除了合并症之外,老年患者辅助治疗的选择还必须基于实际年龄和生物学年龄。此外,评估老年患者的多学科团队应包括老年病学家和分子生物学家。