Patients with stable or responding disease who remained fit for surgery proceeded to surgery 4 6 weeks after the last cycle of chemotherapy.
For example, men treated privately might have fewer or less important co-morbidities or be fit for surgery.
Surgical treatment is generally considered for women with symptomatic prolapse, those medically fit for surgery, and those willing to undergo surgery [ 15].
Patients will be considered for the study if they are 75 years of age or older, medically fit for surgery, have an isolated displaced olecranon fracture, and present within 14 days of injury.
Another limitation is due to a subtle shift in reason for referral to MSK CATS over time: GPs started to refer patients to MSK CATS specifically for acupuncture treatment, including some who did not want, or were not fit for, surgery.
Patients will be considered for the study if they are 75 years or older, medically fit for surgery, have an isolated displaced (more than 2 mm) olecranon fracture based on standard anteroposterior (AP) and lateral radiographs, and present within 14 days of injury to a participating institution.
Eligible studies recruited women aged 70 years or over with operable breast cancer, fit for surgery under general anaesthia.
Second treatments were postponed in some women to allow initiation of ARV therapy or in women who were not medically fit for surgery.
To establish whether primary endocrine therapy is justifiable for women who are fit for surgery, we systematically reviewed the evidence from randomised trials comparing primary endocrine therapy to surgery, with or without adjuvant endocrine therapy, in the management of women aged 70 years or over with operable breast cancer.
While early postoperative mortality in children deemed fit for surgery may be as low as 4%, 1 the long-term outcome of children sent abroad for surgery is associated with a high mortality rate (18.8%) in part related to the delay prior to definitive treatment.
