Do elderly patients experience increased perioperative or postoperative morbidity or mortality when given neoadjuvant chemoradiation before esophagectomy?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1372-1376

  Fogh, Shannon E ^a   Yu, Anthony ^b   Kubicek, Gregory J ^a   Scott, Walter ^c   Mitchell, Edith ^b   Rosato, Ernest L ^b   Berger, Adam C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Elderly; Esophagectomy; Neoadjuvant therapy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC DISEASE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ELDERLY; ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; ESOPHAGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

CHEMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK FACTOR; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960091779     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.055     Document Type: Article

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