Revisiting primary endocrine therapy versus surgery in older women with breast cancer: meta-analysis.
Kai Siang ChanMichelle Tian Hui ChongClement Luck Khng ChiaKwok Leung CheungPublished in: The British journal of surgery (2023)
Overall survival was worse among older women receiving primary endocrine therapy in an analysis including all studies, but comparable in RCTs and prospective studies. This may be due to confounding by age and co-morbidities in retrospective cohort studies of primary endocrine therapy.