Older Patients Are Less Affected by Radiochemotherapeutic Treatment than Younger

Purpose. The general assumption is that cancer therapy impairs the quality of life in elderly patients more than in younger ones. We were interested in the effects of radiochemotherapeutic treatment on the quality of life of elderly patients compared to younger patients and compared to normative dat...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Max J. Weiling, Wencke Losensky, Katharina Wächter, Teresa Schilling, Fabian Frank, Matthias Haas, Rainer Fietkau, Luitpold V. Distel, Stephanie Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5471054