Current Treatment Strategies for Elderly Patients with Metastatic Colon Cancer

Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States and is expected to rise as the prevalence of colon cancer is increasing with increasing aging population. Though some studies have shown benefits of chemotherapy in the elderly population, however, they are also at risk of drug toxi...

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Autores principales: Idrees, Muhammad, Tejani, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31355073
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4713
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description Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States and is expected to rise as the prevalence of colon cancer is increasing with increasing aging population. Though some studies have shown benefits of chemotherapy in the elderly population, however, they are also at risk of drug toxicities. We searched major search engines including PubMed, Medline and EMBASE and reviewed articles published in the last 10 years. Here we present current treatment strategies available for the metastatic colon cancer in elderly patients.
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spelling pubmed-66501882019-07-28 Current Treatment Strategies for Elderly Patients with Metastatic Colon Cancer Idrees, Muhammad Tejani, Mohamed Cureus Internal Medicine Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States and is expected to rise as the prevalence of colon cancer is increasing with increasing aging population. Though some studies have shown benefits of chemotherapy in the elderly population, however, they are also at risk of drug toxicities. We searched major search engines including PubMed, Medline and EMBASE and reviewed articles published in the last 10 years. Here we present current treatment strategies available for the metastatic colon cancer in elderly patients. Cureus 2019-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6650188/ /pubmed/31355073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4713 Text en Copyright © 2019, Idrees et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Current Treatment Strategies for Elderly Patients with Metastatic Colon Cancer
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title_short Current Treatment Strategies for Elderly Patients with Metastatic Colon Cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650188/
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