A Four-Tiered Prognostic Score for Patients Receiving Palliative Thoracic Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer

Palliative radiotherapy improves lung cancer related symptoms. Prognosis should be taken into account when deciding about fractionation. In this study, prognostic factors derived from multivariate analysis were used to assign a point sum reflecting 6-month survival. Four prognostic groups were compared. Performance status, lactate dehydrogenase, C-reactive protein, liver/adrenal gland metastases, and extrathoracic disease status significantly predicted survival and formed the basis of the score. The four groups had a median survival of 0.8, 1.6, 3.3, and 10.5 months (6-month survival 0, 10, 30, 70%; 12-month survival 0, 0, 12, 40%; p = 0.0001), respectively. In the unfavorable group best supportive care might be preferable.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Cancer investigation - 36(2018), 1 vom: 02. Jan., Seite 59-65

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nieder, Carsten [VerfasserIn]
Tollåli, Terje [VerfasserIn]
Haukland, Ellinor [VerfasserIn]
Reigstad, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Randi Flatøy, Liv [VerfasserIn]
Dalhaug, Astrid [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-41-4
C-Reactive Protein
EC 1.1.1.27
Journal Article
L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
Non-small cell lung cancer
Palliative radiotherapy
Prognostic factors
Small cell lung cancer
Survival score

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Date Completed 05.03.2018

Date Revised 02.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/07357907.2017.1416394

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM279821654