Research Article
Uptake and Tolerance of Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer and Impact on Survival
Table 3
Oncologists’ reasons for not recommending chemotherapy and patients’ reasons for refusing chemotherapy.
| | Reasons for not recommending chemotherapy1 | Reasons for patients’ refusal of chemotherapy1 | | (%)2 | (%)2 |
| Total | 28 (100) | 27 (100) |
| Performance status | 22 (79) | 3 (11) | Co-morbidities | 16 (57) | 4 (15) | Toxicity | 0 (—) | 20 (74) | Lack of social network or support | 1 (4) | 2 (7) | Wound healing problems | 1 (4) | 0 (—) | Age | 0 (—) | 2 (7) | Transportation issues | 0 (—) | 1 (4) | Other reasons | 0 (—) | 4 (15) | Unclear | 4 (14) | 4 (15) |
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The oncologist or patient could have multiple reasons; therefore, the sum of each reason exceeds the total number in each column.
2Column percentage.
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