Prediction of Radiotherapy Compliance in Elderly Cancer Patients Using an Internally Validated Decision Tree.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to analyze the relationship between the available variables and treatment compliance in elderly cancer patients treated with radiotherapy and to establish a decision tree model to guide caregivers in their decision-making process. For this purpose, 456 patients over 74 years of age who received radiotherapy between 2005 and 2017 were included in this retrospective analysis. The outcome of interest was radiotherapy compliance, determined by whether patients completed their scheduled radiotherapy treatment (compliance means they completed their treatment and noncompliance means they did not). A bootstrap (B = 400) technique was implemented to select the best tuning parameters to establish the decision tree. The developed decision tree uses patient status, the Charlson comorbi

SUBMITTER: Osong B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9776371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature