The Concept of Tenju-gann, or "Natural-End Cancer" T he concept of Tenju-gann proposed by Kitagawa et al. 1 and dis- cussed in the accompanying editorial by Kennedy 2 deserves broader application than these authors suggest. Although cancer is increasingly an illness of the elderly, there remains a
Performance status and comorbidity in elderly cancer patients compared with young patients with neoplasia and elderly patients without neoplastic conditions
β Scribed by Lazzaro Repetto; Antonella Venturino; Marina Vercelli; Walter Gianni; Vittorio Biancardi; Claudia Casella; Cristina Granetto; Stefano Parodi; Riccardo Rosso; Vincenzo Marigliano
- Book ID
- 101229329
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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β¦ Synopsis
conditions. Patients with neoplastic disease were recruited from cancer centers; patients with nonneoplastic disease were recruited from either geriatric or general 1 Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, medicine departments. Differences in the distribution of variables were analyzed Genova, Italy.
by univariate and bivariate analyses. 2 Dipartimento di Oncologia Clinica e Sperimen-RESULTS. No significant differences in social environment, marital status, or educatale,
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