Polypharmacy and potentially-inappropriate medications are prevalent in the elderly cancer patients receiving systemic cancer therapy and they co-relate with adverse outcomes

OBJECTIVES: Cancer is the disease of the ageing. Most of the elderly cancer patients have pre-existing illnesses requiring complexity of medical care. Excessive medications would lead not only futility, but also result in adverse outcomes especially if such over-prescription is not appropriate. This...

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Autores principales: Bandidwattanawong, Chanyoot, Rattanaserikulchai, Pat, Jetsadavanit, Nontakorn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38012569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04471-3

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