Open AccessRising and Falling Trends in the Use of Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy Near the End of Life in Older Patients With Cancer
Author(s) -
Penny Fang,
Reshma Jagsi,
Weiguo He,
Xiudong Lei,
Eric G. Campbell,
Sharon H. Giordano,
Grace L. Smith
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482
H-Index - 548
eISSN - 1527-7755
pISSN - 0732-183X
DOI - 10.1200/jco.18.02067
Subject(s) - medicine , falling (accident) , cancer , chemotherapy , targeted therapy , oncology , gerontology , environmental health
End-of-life (EOL) chemotherapy has been described as the most widespread, wasteful, and unnecessary practice in oncology, with benchmarking aimed to reduce physician use of chemotherapy within 14 days of EOL. We evaluated the recent transformation of EOL chemotherapy and targeted therapy practices nationally.