Survival benefits of combined-modality treatment in elderly patients with NSCLC
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Combined-modality therapy offers survival benefits over radiotherapy alone for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Elderly patients have been under-represented in trials of these treatments, however, and no trial has yet directly compared radiotherapy alone with radiotherapy plus chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage III NSCLC. Elderly patients exposed to aggressive combined-modality treatment might be vulnerable to high toxicity and poor outcomes.
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