Enrollment of Elderly Patients With Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Multi-institutional Trials of Proton Beam Radiation Therapy

Clin Lung Cancer. 2017 Sep;18(5):441-443. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.03.007. Epub 2017 Mar 16.

Authors

Vivek Verma¹, Jean-Claude M Rwigema², Sebastian Adeberg³, Charles B Simone 2nd⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28385372
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.03.007

No abstract available

Keywords: Accrual; Age; Clinical trial; Proton therapy; Radiotherapy.

MeSH terms

Aged
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / pathology
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / radiotherapy*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / pathology
Lung Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
Multicenter Studies as Topic
Patient Selection*
Proton Therapy*
Radiotherapy Dosage
Treatment Outcome