Open AccessMortality in Older Patients with Breast Cancer Undergoing Breast Surgery: How Low is “Low Risk”?
Author(s) -
Jacquelyn Dillon,
Samantha M. Thomas,
Laura H. Rosenberger,
Gayle DiLalla,
Carolyn S. Menendez,
E. Shelley Hwang,
Jennifer K. Plichta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.764
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1534-4681
pISSN - 1068-9265
DOI - 10.1245/s10434-021-10502-3
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , nomogram , comorbidity , surgical oncology , odds ratio , perioperative , confidence interval , logistic regression , cancer , surgery
Breast surgery carries a low risk of postoperative mortality. For older patients with multiple comorbidities, even low-risk procedures can confer some increased perioperative risk. We sought to identify factors associated with postoperative mortality in breast cancer patients ≥70 years to create a nomogram for predicting risk of death within 90 days.