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The general population is aging, which expectedly will lead to a future increase in older patients with cancer. This review summarises the recent advances in radiotherapy. Technological advances have led radiotherapy to be an efficient and well-tolerated treatment option in older patient with cancer. Studies show no difference in toxicity and disease control rates compared with the ones in younger patients with cancer. MR-guided radiotherapy, proton therapy, and integration of artificial intelligence in treatment planning represent the latest advances in the field of radiotherapy and hold potential to further improve the treatment of older patients with cancer., (Published under Open Access CC-BY-NC-BD 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.)

About half of all Danish cancer patients are 70 years or older at diagnosis. The incidence is expected to increase further over the coming years because of an increasing longevity. Therefore, this review recommends that the Danish health care system develops and implement models to ensure optimal care for older adults with cancer. We are still in need of knowledge about the optimal treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and care for older adults with cancer. We encourage the Danish health authorities to formulate a national strategy for this area.

Introduction: No previous reports on 3-D conformal radiotherapy of Danish patients with inoperable local advanced non-small-cell lung cancer have been published., Materials and Methods: From 1995 to 2003, 158 patients with inoperable non-small-cell stage III lung cancer received radical radiotherapy in doses of 60-66 Gy in 30-33 fractions. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy was administered to 77 patients., Results: The median survival time was 15.8 months. The one, two-, three-, four-, and five-year survival rates were 61%, 35%, 23%, 19% and 17%, respectively. Gender and age had no influence on survival, while patients in performance status 2 tended to have poorer survival rate than patients in performance status 0-1. The lung function as evaluated byh FEV1 and FVC declined by 8-9% during the first year and was reduced by 9-13% after three years. The cause of death in 90% of the cases was lung cancer. In 50% of all cases, a loco-regional relapse was found, and in 41% distant metastases existed., Discussion: These results show that a significant number of stage III patients treated with modern radiotherapy with curative intent will be long-term survivors.

Meningeal carcinomatosis (MC) originating from non-haematological tumours is a late event in the course of a malignant disease. MC must be suspected in patients with disperse neurological symptoms from at least two of the following three parts of the central nervous system: the brain, the cranial nerves, and the spinal cord, and if a discrepancy between symptoms and objective findings is found. A suspicion of MC must be confirmed by lumbar puncture and/or MR with Gadolinium in patients where a confirmation of MC will lead to active therapy. Therapy depends on tumour type, performance status of the patient, and present status of the malignant disease. Patients with good performance status and with a chemo-sensitive tumour are offered a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Median survival is one to three months and active therapy does not prolong survival with certainty. Therefore, therapy primarily aims at an improvement of quality of life for the patient.

During a two year period, general practitioners in a local area were called to all 112 alarms (the number dialled in Denmark in emergencies) in order to improve the prognosis of patients with cardiac arrest. In 55% of the calls, the practitioners arrived within five minutes, whereas the ambulance arrived within five minutes in only 16% of the cases (p < 0.01). Three of ten patients with cardiac arrest survived without cerebral damage. In 23% of the cases final treatment was completed by the local practitioner.

A case of locally advanced basal cell carcinoma of the head treated with systemic chemotherapy consisting of cis-platinum, fluorouracil and bleomycin is reported. The treatment resulted in complete remission lasting for 13 months.