Trends in the management and survival of digestive tract cancers among patients aged over 80 years

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-241

  Bouvier, A M ^a   Launoy, G ^b   Lepage, C ^a   Faivre, J ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FRANCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; STOMACH CANCER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGISTRIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23844522545     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02559.x     Document Type: Article

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