Falls prechemotherapy and toxicity-related hospitalization during adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer in older women: Results from the prospective multicenter HOPE trial.
Jingran JiMarie BaeCan-Lan SunTanya M WildesRachel A FreedmanAllison MagnusonTracey O'ConnorBeverly MoyHeidi D KlepinAndrew E ChapmanWilliam P TewEfrat DotanMary Anne FentonHeeyoung KimVani KatheriaCary P GrossHarvey J CohenHyman B MussMina S SedrakPublished in: Cancer (2023)
In this cohort of older women with early breast cancer, women who experienced more than one fall before chemotherapy had an over 4-fold increased risk of toxicity-related hospitalization during chemotherapy, independent of sociodemographic, disease, and geriatric factors.