Management of brain metastases in elderly patients with lung cancer.

ABSTRACT: The incidence of brain metastases (BM) is continuing to grow in the elderly population with lung cancer, but these patients are seriously under-represented in clinical trials. Thus, their treatment is not based on the evidence from randomized prospective studies. Age is a well recognized poor prognostic factor for survival in patients with BM from lung cancer, which is reflected in prognostic scales, but its impact on the patients' prognosis reflected by its value in gradually updated grading indices seems to decrease. The reason for poorer outcomes in the elderly is unknown-it may result from the influence of the age per se, simplified staging work-up and suboptimal treatment in this patient subgroup or the excess toxicity of the aggressive anticancer treatment secondary to the impaired p

SUBMITTER: Socha J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8182516 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature