[Surgery of breast carcinoma in the elderly woman].

From our experience the age of the patient does not seen to be a contraindication to surgical therapy of breast cancer. There was no statistically significant difference in the tumor staging between patients younger than 75 years and patients older than 74 years. Although radical surgery was not possible in all cases of patients older than 74 years because of general risk factors, there was not statistical difference in the survival rates of patients younger than 75 years.