Patterns of care in elderly head-and-neck cancer radiation oncology patients: a single-center cohort study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20395066CONCLUSION: Elderly head-and-neck cancer patients (=>75yo) exhibited different clinical characteristics and experienced different patterns of care from younger patients. Although age itself was an adverse predictor of cause-specific survival, its effect was modest. Elderly patients selected for definitive RT or intensified RT showed no evidence of impaired treatment tolerance.