Adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients (>or=75 yr) completely resected for colon cancer stage III compared to younger patients: toxicity and prognosis.

Søren Astrup Jensen,Adam Vilmar,Jens Benn Sørensen

Adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients (>or=75 yr) completely resected for colon cancer stage III compared to younger patients: toxicity and prognosis.

2006

Søren Astrup Jensen
Adam Vilmar
Jens Benn Sørensen

Purpose To compare benefits and risks to adjuvant chemotherapy following complete resection of nodepositive colon cancer stage III for patients aged ≥75 yr and younger.

Keywords:

Fluorouracil
Colorectal cancer
Adjuvant
Performance status
Retrospective cohort study
Survival rate
Oncology
Medicine
Chemotherapy
Adverse effect
Internal medicine
Hematology
Survival analysis
Adenocarcinoma

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