Elderly Cancer Survivors Report Significant Disabilities - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
SALT LAKE CITY, April 19 - Surviving cancer does not mean a return to a full, functional life for many elderly women, researchers here report.
Forty-two percent of elderly women (median age 72) who were five-year survivors of cancers said they were unable to do heavy housework versus 31% of same-age women who never had cancer (OR 1.47; 95% CI 1.27-1.69), Carol Sweeney Ph.D., of the Health Research Center at the University of Utah and colleagues wrote in the April 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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