Alzheimer's patients get less breast cancer therapy (Reuters)
30th Nov 2005, 22:08 GMT
Women with Alzheimer's disease receive less treatment for breast cancer than do comparable female Medicare beneficiaries, the results of a new study indicate. However, this pattern is not necessarily inappropriate, the authors note in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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