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- Title
Spécificité du cancer de l’ovaire chez la personne âgée.
- Authors
Falandry, C.; You, B.; Morel-Soldner, I.; Bonnefoy, M.; Pujade-Lauraine, E.; Freyer, G.
- Abstract
Ovarian cancer is an excellent model in geriatric oncology because of its epidemiological characteristics. Increased age is associated with poorer prognoses, partly due to suboptimal treatments but also to independent factors detected during geriatric assessment. In the absence of specific prospective data, treatments validated in younger patients are considered standard in this heterogeneous and fragile population. Today, a contradiction exists between reassuring data obtained from the analysis of age subgroups in large therapeutic studies and analyses of real practice, frequently involving ongoing care using surgical and chemotherapeutic treatments. The advent of geriatric oncology has allowed the development of specific clinical studies and the establishment of a clinical/biological interface that will provide data for the improved adaptation of therapeutic strategies.
- Subjects
OVARIAN tumors; GERIATRIC oncology; CANCER patients; CANCER treatment; CANCER chemotherapy; ONCOLOGIC surgery
- Publication
Oncologie (Tech Science Press), 2008, Vol 10, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1292-3818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10269-007-0781-3