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Treatment in elderly patients with head and neck cancer
- Source :
- Hno, 64(4), 217-220. SPRINGER
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SPRINGER, 2016.
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Abstract
- Despite the increasing number of elderly patients requiring treatment for head and neck cancer, there is insufficient available evidence about the oncological results of treatment and its tolerability in such patients. Owing to comorbidities, elderly patients often need complex evaluation and pretreatment management, which often results in their exclusion from clinical trials. The question of which patients constitute the highest-risk groups regarding treatment-related morbidity and mortality, and who can tolerate and benefit from aggressive treatment, has not been adequately studied. Biologic rather than chronologic age should be a more important factor in treatment protocols. Age-specific prospective clinical studies are needed on the treatment of head and neck cancer in elderly patients.
- Subjects :
- Male
Survival
Health Services for the Aged
medicine.medical_treatment
Comorbidity
MAJOR SURGERY
Postoperative Complications
0302 clinical medicine
Elderly
Quality of life
QUALITY-OF-LIFE
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Head and neck cancer
Aged, 80 and over
COMPLICATIONS
Evidence-Based Medicine
Chemoradiotherapy
Middle Aged
Survival Rate
Treatment Outcome
Tolerability
Head and Neck Neoplasms
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
RADIOTHERAPY
medicine.medical_specialty
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
AGE
medicine
Humans
RECONSTRUCTION
COHORT
Intensive care medicine
Geriatric Assessment
Survival rate
Aged
OLDER PATIENTS
business.industry
Evidence-based medicine
medicine.disease
Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures
Surgery
Radiation therapy
Clinical trial
Treatment
Otorhinolaryngology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00176192
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hno
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....feaeba19fa7305d414136536cb9e2175