Melatonin supplementation to improve quality of life for elderly cancer patients
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Quality of life in elderly cancer patients.
The incidence of most types of cancer is age-dependent and progressive ageing is rapidly increasing the number of elderly people who need treatment for cancer. Elderly patients (older than 70 years) present particular characteristics that make the choice of the correct treatment more difficult; for this reason, these patients are often undertreated and largely underrepresented in cancer trials ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative Clinical Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2515-0219
DOI: 10.15761/icm.1000148