Open AccessChemotherapy in geriatric patients with poor performance status small cell lung cancer: Series from a tertiary care center
Author(s) -
Sundriyal Deepak,
Kumar Parmod,
Kumar Ujjawal,
Sehrawat Amit
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
aging medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-0360
DOI - 10.1002/agm2.12205
Subject(s) - tertiary care , medicine , chemotherapy , lung cancer , cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , oncology , series (stratigraphy) , center (category theory) , intensive care medicine , paleontology , chemistry , biology , crystallography
Geriatric age group patients with poor performance status and advanced stage cancer are often denied chemotherapy. In this series of cases, we demonstrated that systemic anti‐cancer therapy can be considered in these patients after a meticulous modification of the chemo‐protocol.