Decrease in performance status after lobectomy mean poor prognosis in elderly lung cancer patients
Abstract
Surgery remains the best treatment for obtaining cure in patients with resectable lung cancer, regardless of age. In elderly patients, however, the presumed fear of decreased performance status (PS) after lobectomy has resulted in the delivery of sub-optimal cancer surgery. Surgical decision making for such patients would become easier if post-lobectomy survival benefits and changes in PS were well defined.We reviewed patients aged 75 years or...
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Title
Decrease in performance status after lobectomy mean poor prognosis in elderly lung cancer patients
Published Date
Jun 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
9
Issue
6
Pages
1525 - 1530
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