February 15, 2001

Effectiveness of Chemotherapy for Advanced Lung Cancer in the Elderly: Instrumental Variable and Propensity Analysis

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Chemotherapy for stage IV NSCLC seems to have effectiveness for elderly patients and those with comorbid conditions that is similar to the efficacy seen in randomized trials containing mostly younger, highly selected patients. All suitable patients should be given the opportunity to consider palliative chemotherapy for metastatic NSCLC.

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Earle et al. (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d48a6595972252e7dc75a3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2001.19.4.1064

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