Lymphopenia and clinical outcome of elderly patients treated with sunitinib for metastatic renal cell cancer
Autor: | Giorgi, Ugo, Rihawi, Karim, Aieta, Michele, Lo Re, Giovanni, Sava, Teodoro, Masini, Cristina, Baldazzi, Valentina, Vincenzo, Fabio, Camerini, Andrea, Giuseppe Fornarini, Burattini, Luciano, Rosti, Giovanni, Moscetti, Luca I., Chiuri, Vincenzo Emanuele, Fedeli, Stefano Luzi, Ferrari, Vittorio D., Amadori, Dino, Basso, Umberto |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Zdroj: | Publons ResearcherID |
ISSN: | 1527-7755 0732-183X |
DOI: | 10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.e15615 |
Popis: | e15615 Background: Lymphopenia is associated with toxicity and outcome in several cancer types. We assessed the association of pre-treatment lymphopenia with toxicity and clinical outcome of elderly patients with metastatic renal cell cancer treated with first-line sunitinib. We evaluated the prognostic factors in these patients. Methods: We reviewed the clinical files of 181 patients aged >70 years with mRCC treated with first-line sunitinib in seventeen Italian Oncology Units from February 2006 to September 2011. Baseline lymphopenia was defined as lymphocyte counts |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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