title: [Elderly patients and radiotherapy: A short review].
abstract: The ageing of French population imposes to radiotherapists the challenge to treat older patients and to adjust their treatment. Unthinkable 30 years ago, radiation therapy concerns nowadays patients aged more than 90 years old. Oncogeriatric scales have been improved those last years without necessarily making sure that the right treatment is given to the right patient: if oncogeriatric scales use influences the final therapeutic decision, it does not define new target volumes, new doses, or new fractionation protocols. Except for some organs, there is not, for the moment, any consensus concerning geriatric population adapted treatments. This makes any therapeutic decision difficult. The present review has for objective to realise a report of the studies about favorable and unfavorable effects of radiation therapy amongst aged (>70 years old) or very aged (>90years old) population.
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vallard
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Guy
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Espenel
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Langrand-Escure
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Jane-Chloé
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Trone
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département d'oncologie médicale, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Benoîte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Méry
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département d'oncologie médicale, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moriceau
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département d'oncologie médicale, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Romain
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rivoirard
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Laroche
authors.affiliation: Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce, département de radiation oncology, boulevard du Port-Royal, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Cyrus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chargari
authors.affiliation: Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez cedex, France. Electronic address: nicolas.magne@icloire.fr.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Magné
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005602:France; D019456:Health Transition; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011836:Radiation Tolerance; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects
keywords: Cancer; Comorbidities; Comorbidités; Effectiveness; Efficacité; Elderly; Radiotherapy; Radiothérapie; Sujet âgé; Tolerance; Tolérance