[Cancer in an elderly woman]

Abstract

The most common cancers in elderly women, i.e. over 70 years of age, are breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer and cancer of the uterine corpus. Breast, lung and pancreatic cancers are in turn the greatest causes of mortality. While age itself is not an obstacle to surgical or oncological treatments, implementation of the treatments in the elderly are often associated with challenges due to primary diseases and diminished function of organs. One of the greatest practical problems is the exclusion of elderly patients from clinical cancer trials.