Open AccessAcute treatment-related toxicity in elderly patients with good performance status compared to young patients in locally advanced esophageal carcinoma treated by definitive chemoradiation: A retrospective comparative study
Author(s) -
Shweta Mohata,
Hemanth Kumar,
Neeti Sharma,
Shankar Lal Jhakhar,
Surender Beniwal,
Kamlesh Kumar Harsh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_878_18
Subject(s) - medicine , esophagitis , retrospective cohort study , radiation therapy , vomiting , nausea , esophagus , cohort , esophageal cancer , chemoradiotherapy , stage (stratigraphy) , toxicity , surgery , cancer , disease , reflux , paleontology , biology
The benefit of definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer is not well established. We perform a single institutional retrospective study of CRT in terms of toxicity in elderly patients (age more than 60 years) as compared with young cohort (age <60 years) in locally advanced nonmetastatic esophageal cancer.