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Treatment of anal carcinoma in the elderly: feasibility and outcome of radical radiotherapy with or without concomitant chemotherapy |
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Published in | Cancer. 1999, vol. 85, no. 1, p. 26-31 | |
Abstract | For most cancers, information on treatment tolerance and results for elderly patients is quite limited. This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility and results of curative nonsurgical treatment of patients age 75 years or older with anal carcinoma. | |
Keywords | Aged — Aged, 80 and over — Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage/adverse effects — Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage/adverse effects — Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use — Anus Neoplasms/mortality/therapy — Brachytherapy/adverse effects — Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/mortality/therapy — Combined Modality Therapy — Feasibility Studies — Female — Fluorouracil/administration & dosage/adverse effects — Humans — Male — Mitomycin/administration & dosage/adverse effects — Treatment Outcome | |
Identifiers | PMID: 9921970 | |
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Research group | Groupe Roth Arnaud (oncologie) (285) | |
Citation (ISO format) | ALLAL, Abdelkarim Said et al. Treatment of anal carcinoma in the elderly: feasibility and outcome of radical radiotherapy with or without concomitant chemotherapy. In: Cancer, 1999, vol. 85, n° 1, p. 26-31. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990101)85:1<26::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-0 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:55608 |