作者: Carmela Pepe , Baktiar Hasan , Timothy L. Winton , Lesley Seymour , Barbara Graham
关键词: Hazard ratio 、 Survival analysis 、 Vinorelbine 、 Performance status 、 Surgery 、 Cancer 、 Medicine 、 Lung cancer 、 Oncology 、 Clinical trial 、 Retrospective cohort study 、 Internal medicine
摘要: Purpose Recent trials have shown significant survival benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy for non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Whether elderly patients tolerate platinum-based and derive the same advantage is unknown. This retrospective study evaluated influence of age on survival, delivery, toxicity in National Cancer Institute Canada (NCIC) Clinical Trials Group JBR.10. Patients Methods Pretreatment characteristics were compared 327 young (≤ 65 years) 155 (> patients. Chemotherapy delivery 213 treated (63 elderly, 150 young). Results Baseline demographics by similar with exception histology (adenocarcinoma: 58% young, 43% elderly; squamous: 32% 49% P = .001) performance status (PS; PS 0: 53% 41% .01). significantly prolonged overall (hazard ratio, 0.61; ...