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Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center

Geriatric age group patients with poor performance status and advanced stage cancer are often denied chemotherapy. In this series of cases, we demonstrated that systemic anti‐cancer therapy can be considered in these patients after a meticulous modification of the chemo‐protocol.[Image: see text]...

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Autores principales: Sundriyal, Deepak, Kumar, Parmod, Kumar, Ujjawal, Sehrawat, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9245170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35783119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12205
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Sumario:Geriatric age group patients with poor performance status and advanced stage cancer are often denied chemotherapy. In this series of cases, we demonstrated that systemic anti‐cancer therapy can be considered in these patients after a meticulous modification of the chemo‐protocol.[Image: see text]