Lung cancer in the octogenarian

Gerontology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 158-160

  Kurishima, Koichi ^a   Satoh, Hiroaki ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroichi ^b   Yamashita, Yuko T ^a   Ohtsuka, Morio ^a   Sekizawa, Kiyohisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Lung cancer; Octogenarians

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035018378     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052790     Document Type: Article

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