Ageism in medicine? Seniors find bias in care, experts say (free but must register)
May 2, 2005
By Fawn Vrazo
Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

Brief Excerpt:
'Many seniors deal with physicians who minimize their medical complaints, treat them like children, or deny them medicine that would be offered to younger patients, experts say.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association this year illustrated the point. Looking at the chemotherapy treatment of 6,487 breast-cancer patients in four clinical trials, researchers found that only 8 percent were 65 or older. By comparison, nearly 44 percent of the nation's breast-cancer victims are 65 or older."

The JAMA article mentioned is
Hyman B. Muss; Susan Woolf; Donald Berry; et al
Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Older and Younger Women With Lymph Node–Positive Breast Cancer.
JAMA, March 2, 2005; 293: 1073 - 1081.
Read the Abstract (full text not free)