The application and outcome of standard of care treatment in elderly women with ovarian cancer: a literature review over the last 10 years.

The rising number and increasing longevity of the elderly population calls for improvements and potentially a more personalized approach to the treatment of cancer in this group. Elderly patients frequently present with a number of comorbidities, complicating surgery and chemotherapy tolerability. I...

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Main Authors: Steven J Gibson, Gini F Fleming, Sarah M Temkin, Dana M Chase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2016.00063/full