TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of elderly patients with NSCLC; updated expert's opinion paper
T2 - EORTC elderly task force, lung cancer group and international society for geriatric oncology
AU - Pallis, Athanasios G.
AU - Gridelli, C.
AU - Wedding, U.
AU - Faivre-Finn, C.
AU - Veronesi, G.
AU - Jaklitsch, M.
AU - Luciani, A.
AU - O'Brien, M.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a very common disease in the elderly population and its incidence in this particular population is expected to increase further, because of the ageing of the Western population. Despite this, limited data are available for the treatment of these patients and, therefore, the development of evidence-based treatment recommendations is challenging. In 2010, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) took an initiative in collaboration with International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) and created an experts panel that provided an experts' opinion consensus paper for the management of elderly NSCLC patients. Since this publication, important new data are available and EORTC and SIOG recommended to update the 2010 recommendations. Besides recommendations for surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, treatment of locally advanced and metastatic disease, recommendations were expanded, to include data on patient preferences and geriatric assessment.
AB - Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a very common disease in the elderly population and its incidence in this particular population is expected to increase further, because of the ageing of the Western population. Despite this, limited data are available for the treatment of these patients and, therefore, the development of evidence-based treatment recommendations is challenging. In 2010, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) took an initiative in collaboration with International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) and created an experts panel that provided an experts' opinion consensus paper for the management of elderly NSCLC patients. Since this publication, important new data are available and EORTC and SIOG recommended to update the 2010 recommendations. Besides recommendations for surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, treatment of locally advanced and metastatic disease, recommendations were expanded, to include data on patient preferences and geriatric assessment.
KW - Age
KW - Elderly
KW - EORTC
KW - NSCLC
KW - SIOG
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U2 - 10.1093/annonc/mdu022
DO - 10.1093/annonc/mdu022
M3 - Article
C2 - 24638905
AN - SCOPUS:84903727209
SN - 0923-7534
VL - 25
SP - 1270
EP - 1283
JO - Annals of Oncology
JF - Annals of Oncology
IS - 7
M1 - mdu022
ER -