Concurrent chemotherapy is associated with improved survival in elderly patients with bladder cancer undergoing radiotherapy.

Mark C KorpicsAlec M BlockBrendan MartinCourtney HentzEllen R GaynorElizabeth HenryMatthew M HarkenriderAbhishek A Solanki

Published in: Cancer (2017)

CCRT is associated with improved OS compared with the use of RT alone in elderly patients with MIBC, independent of Charlson-Deyo comorbidity score, suggesting that CCRT should be used in this population. Cancer 2017;123:3524-31. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

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papillary thyroid
locally advanced
squamous cell
early stage
radiation therapy
squamous cell carcinoma
lymph node metastasis
community dwelling