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Use of comorbidity indices in patients with any cancer, breast cancer, and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2-positive breast cancer: A systematic review.

Maribel SalasMackenzie HendersonMeera SundararajanNora TuZahidul IslamMina EbeidLaura Horne
Published in: PloS one (2021)
CCI-based indices are the most appropriate indices to use in the general breast-cancer population. There is insufficient validation of any comorbidity index in HER2+ breast cancer to provide a recommendation, indicating a future need to validate these instruments in this population.
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