Chemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center.
Deepak SundriyalParmod KumarUjjawal KumarAmit SehrawatPublished in: Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) (2022)
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.
Keyphrases
- cancer therapy
- small cell lung cancer
- tertiary care
- end stage renal disease
- locally advanced
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- drug delivery
- peritoneal dialysis
- papillary thyroid
- photodynamic therapy
- prognostic factors
- hip fracture
- radiation therapy
- rectal cancer
- combination therapy
- chemotherapy induced