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Patient-reported symptoms and performance status before palliative radiotherapy in geriatric cancer patients (octogenarians)

PURPOSE: To evaluate differences in baseline parameters including performance status and self-reported symptom burden between geriatric and non-geriatric cancer patients, and to assess the hypothesis that these factors might predispose older patients to incomplete radiotherapy and short survival. PA...

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Autores principales: Nieder, Carsten, Kämpe, Thomas A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32095537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tipsro.2016.12.002