Data complete?
Evaluation appropriate?
Number of reasons that the woman may discontinue the tamoxifen before completing 5 years of therapy
Should you take additional steps to maximize compliance by this patient?
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Purpose: To identify an older woman with breast cancer who may be more likely to discontinue tamoxifen before completing 5 years of therapy.
Specialty: Toxicology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care
Objective: selection, response to therapy, disease progression, failure handling (loss to followup, etc)
ICD-10: C50-C50,