1. Lung cancer in patients aged 80 years and over
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Hiroaki Satoh, Koichi Kurishima, Shigemi Ishikawa, Morio Ohtsuka, Hiroichi Ishikawa, Gen Ohara, Nobuyuki Hizawa, Ryota Nakamura, Katsunori Kagohashi, and Kiyohisa Sekizawa
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Male ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Cancer Research ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,MEDLINE ,medicine ,Humans ,Stage (cooking) ,Lung cancer ,Pathological ,Aged ,Neoplasm Staging ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,Medical record ,Respiratory disease ,Age Factors ,Cancer ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Survival Rate ,Treatment Outcome ,Oncology ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Female ,business - Abstract
application/pdf, Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine clinical and pathological features, treatment modality approaches in the elderly, especially in patients aged 80 years and older. Methods From the databases at two educational hospitals during the period from January 1978 and December 2007, medical records of lung cancer patients were retrospectively reviewed. The patient population was divided into three age groups: less than 70 years (the
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- 2009
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