Treatment of colorectal cancer in the elderly: A review of the literature

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Golfinopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Pentheroudakis, George ^a   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Colorectal cancer; Elderly; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CAMPTOTHECIN; CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; LEVAMISOLE; OXALIPLATIN;

AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKOPENIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PARESTHESIA; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL TRIALS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 31544439628     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2005.10.002     Document Type: Review

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