A FRENCH SURVEY OF THE DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WITH HISTOLOGICALLY/CYTOLOGICALLY CONFIRMED LUNG CANCER.

Intergroupe Francophone de Cancerologie Thoracique

Status: Completed

Conditions: ELDERLY PEOPLE; Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: diagnostic and therapeutic management

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00198406

IFCT-0202

Details and patient eligibility

About

Management of lung cancer remains very controversial for elderly patients (pts) and they are often excluded from clinical trials. We present here a survey performed about the management of lung cancer pts aged 70 or more in France. All pts aged 70 or more with histo/cytologically proved lung cancer diagnosed between sept 02 and oct 03 in participating centers were recorded and their characteristics, the diagnostic procedures, therapeutic management and survival were analysed.

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• histo/cytologically proved lung cancer

Exclusion criteria