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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Case Reports
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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author Sundriyal, Deepak
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spelling pubmed-92451702022-07-01 Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center Sundriyal, Deepak Kumar, Parmod Kumar, Ujjawal Sehrawat, Amit Aging Med (Milton) Case Reports 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] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9245170/ /pubmed/35783119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12205 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Aging Medicine published by Beijing Hospital and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title_full Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title_fullStr Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title_full_unstemmed Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title_short Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
title_sort chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: series from a tertiary care center
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9245170/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12205
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