Effectiveness of Chemotherapy for Advanced Lung Cancer in the Elderly: Instrumental Variable and Propensity Analysis
- 15 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 19 (4) , 1064-1070
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2001.19.4.1064
Abstract
PURPOSE: To compare the effectiveness of chemotherapy given to elderly patients in routine practice for stage IV non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with the efficacy observed in randomized trials. ...Keywords
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