Patient-reported symptoms and performance status before palliative radiotherapy in geriatric cancer patients (octogenarians)

Purpose: To evaluate differences in baseline parameters including performance status and self-reported symptom burden between geriatric and non-geriatric cancer patients, and to assess the hypothesis that these factors might predispose older patients to incomplete radiotherapy and short survival. Pa...

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Main Authors: Carsten Nieder, Thomas A. Kämpe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405632416300105