Breast cancer in elderly women: a different reality?
The findings of the NORA study may help to change attitudes that currently exclude a significant proportion of breast cancer patients from secondary prevention policies, more active treatment strategies, and clinical research trials based on age.
CRWT as an incidental and solitary finding on CT should not be regarded as a pathology prompting a colonoscopy. Approximately two-thirds of the patients had a normal colonoscopy and the remaining patients had benign lesions (12 had diverticular disease and four had benign neoplastic lesions). However, many of these patients seem to warrant colonoscopy regardless of CT findings, particularly patients who have a family history of colorectal cancer, have positive fecal occult blood test results or who are older than 50 years of age.