Researchers: Elderly patients 4 times more likely to die from treatment complications
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 14:31
in Health & Medicine
Research by the American Academy of Family Physicians demonstrates that vulvar cancer occurs most frequently in women age 65 to 75 years of age. Thirty percent of patients with vulvar cancer are age 70 or older, and the rate increases with age, reaching a peak of 20 per 100,000 women by 75 years of age.