Open AccessLung carcinoma patients aged eighty years over and prognostic factors affecting survival
Author(s) -
Umut Sabri Kasapoğlu,
Sinem Güngör,
Sibel Arınç,
Murat Yalçınsoy,
Aysun Mısırlıoğlu,
Özlem Makbule Akbay
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
tuberkuloz ve toraks/tüberküloz ve toraks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 0494-1373
DOI - 10.5578/tt.27881
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , adenocarcinoma , chest pain , disease , retrospective cohort study , cancer , cohort , carcinoma , medical record , life expectancy , surgery , population , environmental health
Almost 50% of all cancers and 70% of cancer deaths occur in cases aged 65 years and more. Thus diagnosis, treatment and follow up in old cases gain importance. Since there a limited number of study that show age-mortality relation in lung cancer cases aged 80 years and over, issues may arise in diagnosis and treatment process of these cases. In this study, we aimed to evaluate general characteristics of lung cancer cases aged 80 years or over and factors that affect survey.