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BACKGROUND:The current study examined how patients' sociodemographic, cancer‐related, and subjective affective factors impacted their role in treatment decision‐making.
METHODS:The patient sample (N = 788) was taken from a prospective follow‐up study of a population‐based cohort. Participants included 343 African American and 445 Caucasian‐American patients with clinically localized prostate cancer...
BACKGROUND:The incidence of colon cancer increases with age, and colon cancer predominantly affects individuals >65 years old. However, there are limited data regarding clinical and pathologic factors, treatment characteristics, and survival of older patients with colon cancer. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of increasing age on colon cancer.
METHODS:Patients diagnosed...
BACKGROUNDAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the common form of acute leukemia in adults, accounting for over 80% of all acute leukemias in individuals aged >18 years. Overall 5‐year survival remains poor in older AML patients; it is <5% in patients aged >65 years. In this study, the authors examined whether survival has improved for subsets of geriatric AML patients over 3 successive decades...
BACKGROUNDOver the past 2 decades, significant progress has been made in the field of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) regarding new imaging techniques, surgical interventions, and systemic therapy. It is not known whether the benefit from these interventions has extended overall survival (OS) within the general mCRC population. A population‐based survival analysis of newly diagnosed patients who...
BACKGROUNDContemporary treatment protocols for adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are age‐specific, and older patients are generally treated less intensively than younger patients. However, it remains uncertain whether older but fit patients with AML really need to have their treatment attenuated.
METHODSTo evaluate the contribution of age to outcome for patients with AML receiving intensive chemotherapy,...
BACKGROUNDProphylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) improves survival in patients with limited‐stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who have a complete response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, yet to the best of the authors' knowledge, data specific to the elderly population are lacking.
METHODSUsing the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, the authors identified 1926 patients...
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