LONG-LIVED INDIVIDUALS PRESENTING WITH LARGE BREAST AND COLON TUMORS HAVE A LOWER RISK OF CONCURRENT METASTASIS

We hypothesized large tumors (stage T3 or T4) are less likely to metastasize in centenarians compared to younger patients. We analyzed 2004 to 2015 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data for the most common cancer types (breast, colon, lung, and prostate) among patients with T3 or T4 tumors and compared rates of M1 (presence of metastases) at time of diagnosis according to ages 30-110 years. Among 44,066 breast cancer patients,...