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SUBMITTER: Fukumoto C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678127 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fukumoto Chonji C Ogisawa Shouhei S Tani Masashi M Hyodo Toshiki T Kamimura Ryouta R Sawatani Yuta Y Hasegawa Tomonori T Komiyama Yuske Y Fujita Atsushi A Wakui Takahiro T Haruyama Yasuo Y Kobashi Gen G Kawamata Hitoshi H
BMC geriatrics 20201120 1
<h4>Background</h4>The status of oral cancer therapy in elderly patients in Japan, where ageing is rapidly progressing, may serve as a model for other countries with similar demographics. There is controversy over what kind of treatment should be applied and how aggressively it should be applied to very elderly patients who have exceeded the average life expectancy. Given that 85 years is approximately the overall Japanese life expectancy at birth, we considered a threshold of 85 years and hypot ...[more]