Comparative outcomes of elderly and non-elderly patients receiving first-line palliative chemotherapy for advanced biliary tract cancer
| Autor: | Tetsuo Ajiki, Nobukazu Kuroda, Tadayuki Kou, Shigekazu Takemura, Hiroaki Furuyama, Hideyoshi Toyokawa, Shujiro Yazumi, Tatsuya Ioka, Hiroaki Terajima, Hiroaki Nagano, Atsushi Miyamoto, Masaaki Awane, Masao Ogawa, Makoto Kume, Masashi Kanai, Kenji Ikezawa, Toshiya Ochiai, Iwao Ikai, Yutaka Takeda, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Kaoru Taira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty Chemotherapy Biliary tract cancer Hepatology business.industry health care facilities manpower and services medicine.medical_treatment First line Hazard ratio Gastroenterology social sciences Palliative chemotherapy humanities Confidence interval Internal medicine Non elderly medicine business Adverse effect |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 29:403-408 |
| ISSN: | 0815-9319 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jgh.12338 |
| Popis: | Background and Aim Few studies have reported the efficacy and safety of palliative chemotherapy in elderly patients with advanced biliary tract cancer. We aimed to investigate the clinical outcomes of palliative chemotherapy for advanced biliary tract cancer in elderly patients. Methods We retrospectively evaluated 403 consecutive patients who received palliative chemotherapy between April 2006 and March 2009 for pathologically confirmed unresectable or recurrent biliary tract cancer. Clinical outcomes of the elderly group (≥ 75 years old; n = 94) were compared with those of the non-elderly group ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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