Retrospective review of chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer in the elderly: Does the end justify the means?

European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 1597-1601

  Findlay, M P N ^a   Griffin, A M ^a   Raghavan, D ^a   McDonald, K E ^a   Coates, A S ^a   Duval, P J ^a   Gianoutsos, P ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TOXICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0026316512     PISSN: 02775379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(91)90422-A     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Active life expectancy
2. Appraisal of methods for the study of chemotherapy of cancer in man: comparative therapeutic trial of nitrogen mustard and triethylene thiophosphoramide
3. Reporting results of cancer treatment
4. Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations
5. Small cell lung carcinoma in the elderly
6. Prognostic factors in small cell carcinoma of the lung: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study
7. Small cell carcinoma of the lung: influence of age on treatment outcome
8. Carboplatin (CBDCA, JM-8) and VP16-213 in previously untreated patients with small cell lung cancer
9. Etoposide, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide and vincristine (ECCO) in previously untreated patients with small cell lung cancer