Although gastric cancer (GC) incidence rises with age, older patients are poorly represented in clinical trials, whose results are therefore difficult to translate into standard management of older patients. Purpose of this study was to compare clinico-pathological features and survival outcomes between older and non-older patients with advanced GC treated with at least two chemotherapy lines.

Second-line treatment efficacy and toxicity in older vs. non-older patients with advanced gastric cancer: A multicentre real-world study / Fanotto, Valentina; Fornaro, Lorenzo; Bordonaro, Roberto; Rosati, Gerardo; Rimassa, Lorenza; Di Donato, Samantha; Santini, Daniele; Tomasello, Gianluca; Leone, Francesco; Silvestris, Nicola; Stragliotto, Silvia; Scartozzi, Mario; Giampieri, Riccardo; Nichetti, Federico; Antonuzzo, Lorenzo; Cinieri, Saverio; Avallone, Antonio; Pellegrino, Antonio; Melisi, Davide; Vasile, Enrico; Gerratana, Lorenzo; Aprile, Giuseppe. - In: JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY. - ISSN 1879-4076. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018). [10.1016/j.jgo.2018.11.009]

Second-line treatment efficacy and toxicity in older vs. non-older patients with advanced gastric cancer: A multicentre real-world study

Santini, Daniele;Scartozzi, Mario;Giampieri, Riccardo;
2018-01-01

Abstract

Although gastric cancer (GC) incidence rises with age, older patients are poorly represented in clinical trials, whose results are therefore difficult to translate into standard management of older patients. Purpose of this study was to compare clinico-pathological features and survival outcomes between older and non-older patients with advanced GC treated with at least two chemotherapy lines.
2018
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