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Non-small cell lung cancer in octogenarian patients – The experience in a tertiary university hospital
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, R.. Gomesb, V.. Hespanhola,c, H.. Queirogaa,c
a Pulmonology Department of Centro Hospitalar de São João, Oporto, Portugal
b Pulmonology Department of Hospital Sousa Martins, Unidade Local de Saúde – Guarda, Portugal
c School of Medicine, University of Oporto, Oporto, Portugal
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and consequently global aging&#44; it is expected that more elderly will be affected by lung cancer&#46; For clinicians&#44; it will be increasingly a challenge to manage these patients because they usually have a high burden of comorbidities&#44; a high risk of complications and shorter life expectancy&#46;<a href="&#35;bib10" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44; </span><a href="&#35;bib11" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Thus&#44; some clinicians are reluctant to propose anticancer treatments &#40;including surgery&#41; to octogenarians&#46; Nevertheless&#44; surgery is the best chance of a cure&#44;<a href="&#35;bib11" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> and should not be denied based on older age alone&#46; Furthermore&#44; the mortality rates associated to surgery have reached acceptable levels&#46;<a href="&#35;bib12" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> In our study&#44; we found that more than 40&#37; of patients were submitted to some form of anticancer treatment&#46; Only a minority of octogenarians presented in surgical staging&#44; and only just over a quarter of them were submitted to surgery&#44; with acceptable outcomes&#46; The presence of significant comorbidities was a major reason for excluding surgery&#46; In patients with contraindications to surgery&#44; SBRT has emerged as an attractive treatment option&#46;<a href="&#35;bib13" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Two of our patients had SBRT&#44; without significant morbidity&#46; Chemotherapy was also performed in about a quarter of patients&#46; In a recent study&#44; octogenarians with NSCLC treated with chemotherapy showed prolonged survival compared with those submitted to BSC&#46;<a href="&#35;bib14" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Our results suggest that selected octogenarians with NSCLC&#44; regardless of age&#44; may benefit from specific anticancer treatment&#46; Thus&#44; a multidisciplinary assessment is recommended&#46; Further studies are warranted to provide an optimal treatment approach for octogenarians&#46;</p><a name="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conflicts of interest</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Corresponding author&#46; hansdabo&#64;yahoo&#46;com&#46;br</p>"
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