The benefit of induction chemotherapy in patients age≥ 75 years: A retrospective study of 110 patients from a single institution

N Vey, D Coso, VJ Bardou, AM Stoppa, AC Braud… - Cancer, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Patients age ≥ … induction chemotherapy. The authors conducted a retrospective study
comparing the outcomes among these elderly patients with the outcomes among younger patients

Induction chemotherapy versus palliative treatment for acute myeloid leukemia in a consecutive cohort of elderly patients

M Colovic, N Colovic, M Radojkovic… - Annals of …, 2012 - Springer
… of elderly patients. The present study suggests that a subgroup of elderly patients with both
… PS and HCT-CI ≤ 2 at presentation may be eligible for intensive induction chemotherapy. …

On the value of intensive remission-induction chemotherapy in elderly patients of 65+ years with acute myeloid leukemia: a randomized phase III study of the …

B Löwenberg, R Zittoun, H Kerkhofs, U Jehn… - Journal of Clinical …, 1989 - ascopubs.org
… We report the results of a prospective study in patients more than 65 … -induction chemotherapy
(arm A) versus "wait and see" and supportive care and mild cytoreductive chemotherapy

Comorbidity is an independent predictor of complete remission in elderly patients receiving induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia

A Etienne, B Esterni, A Charbonnier… - … Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… We retrospectively evaluated 133 patients aged ≥70 years with previously untreated, …
induction chemotherapy at our institution between January 1995 and December 2004. All patients

Standard intensive chemotherapy is less effective and far more toxic than attenuated induction and post-induction regimen in elderly patients with acute myeloid …

BT Huang, WH Zhao, QC Zeng, BS Li, R Chen - Medical Oncology, 2014 - Springer
… intensity of induction and post-induction chemotherapy reduced the … by elderly patients.
However, additional reasons for the dismal results in elderly patients after intensive induction

Induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy vs concurrent chemoradiotherapy in elderly patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

C Wang, X Tang, J Wang, J Song… - … –Head and Neck …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… toxicity between induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy (IC +
CCRT) and concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) alone in elderly patients with advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone following induction chemotherapy for elderly patients with stage III lung cancer

DY Kim, C Song, SH Kim, YJ Kim, JS Lee… - Radiation Oncology …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… fit old patients included, the clinical results of previous studies involving elderly patients with
… Therefore, we should classify elderly patients according to the CCI, which is reliable and …

High-intensity induction chemotherapy is feasible for elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia

A Shacham-Abulafia, G Itchaki, M Yeshurun… - Acta …, 2015 - karger.com
… to treat newly diagnosed elderly AML patients with intensive induction chemotherapy, we
ana… of 62 elderly AML patients eligible for and treated with intensive induction chemotherapy in …

Elderly do benefit from induction chemotherapy: High dose mitoxantrone‐based (“5+ 1”) induction chemotherapy regimen in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia

NY Saini, J Cerny, VF Furtado… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… selection bias and attitude of oncologists towards induction chemotherapyinduction
chemotherapy regimen produces high CR rates, is well tolerated and a significant portion of patients

Role of induction and consolidation chemotherapy in elderly acute myeloid leukemia patients

SJ Kim, JW Cheong, DY Kim, JH Lee, KH Lee… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
induction and consolidation therapy in elderly patients. We retrospectively collected data of
477 patients … The median overall survival (OS) was 339 days in the induction group (n = 266) …