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Addressing overtreatment in breast cancer
Author(s) -
Katz Steven J.,
Morrow Monica
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.28260
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , intensive care medicine , cancer , certainty , philosophy , epistemology
Patients with favorable prognosis of breast cancer are vulnerable to overtreatment because the absolute net benefit of different treatments may be small and difficult to quantify in individual cases. Advances in personalized treatment hold the promise of increasing the certainty of the treatment benefit of different treatments in individual patients, but insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges to treatment decision‐making.