Challenges and advances in cervix cancer treatment in elder women.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_8275CFD18AB9
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Challenges and advances in cervix cancer treatment in elder women.
Journal
Cancer treatment reviews
Author(s)
Kissel M., Rambeau A., Achkar S., Lecuru F., Mathevet P.
ISSN
1532-1967 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0305-7372
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
84
Pages
101976
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
With population ageing, cancer treatments in elder patients is becoming a true public health care issue. There is an authentic dilemma between patient's frailty, residual life expectancy and the toll that take anticancer treatments. Since elder patients are almost always excluded from clinical trials, it is hard to get robust scientific data on the tolerability of oncologic treatments and to set in place recommendations. Cervix cancer is traditionally diagnosed in younger women but it has a 2nd incidence peak between 60 and 70 years old. Cervix cancer in elder patients is a subject to many questions in terms of screening and is a therapeutic challenge. This article reviews literature data on these different aspects, from screening to surgery, from radiotherapy to brachytherapy, from chemotherapy to supportive care, from immunotherapy to geriatric assessment. We tried to show how modern therapeutic innovations may benefit elder patients. Expected benefits in terms of efficacy and toxicity may overcome the long-lasting tendency to undertreatment in elder patients and improve their quality of life after cancer treatment. In 2020, there seems to be less and less reasons justifying that elder women with cervix cancer may not receive the appropriate treatment.
Keywords
Aged, Combined Modality Therapy, Female, Geriatric Assessment/methods, Humans, Quality of Life, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/therapy, Cervix cancer, Chemotherapy, Clinical trials, Elderly, Frailty, Geriatric assessment, Immunotherapy, Quality of life, Radiotherapy, Screening, Supportive care, Surgery, Toxicity
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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06/02/2020 18:43
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05/03/2024 8:16
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