Breast cancer in the Geriatric population

Therapeutic dilemma in the elderly stems from factors such as an advanced stage at presentation, a poorer prognosis despite a favourable biological phenotype with indolent ER positive tumours, co-morbidities that may preclude use of all available treatment options, and an inherent bias on the part of the physicians and patient/relatives in not initiating aggressive or toxic treatment [3] It is in the light of the above mentioned facts that we attempt to review the paper by Tan et al.