Research Article
Older Patients Are Less Affected by Radiochemotherapeutic Treatment than Younger
Table 1
Mean radiotherapeutic total doses of all patients related to age groups and the deceased patients.
| Age (years) | (%) | Deceased patients (%) | Mean irradiation dose (Gy) |
| <40 | 19 (4.1%) | 2 (10.5%) | 55.2 | 40–49 | 56 (12.0%) | 6 (10.7%) | 53.7 | 50–59 | 111 (23.9%) | 13 (11.7%) | 54.3 | 60–69 | 137 (29.5%) | 26 (19.0%) | 54.0 | ≥70 | 142 (30.5%) | 44 (31.0%) | 52.6 | Total dose | | | 53.7 | <60 | 186 (40.0%) | 21 (11.3%) | 54.3 | ≥60 | 279 (60.0%) | 70 (25.1%) | 53.5 |
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