老年小细胞肺癌的治疗

Treatment of small cell lung cancer in elderly patients

目前老年小细胞肺癌发病率呈上升趋势。小细胞肺癌治疗的主要手段是放疗、化疗以及手术治疗,其治疗目的在于延长患者生命的同时提高生活质量。随着精准放疗时代的到来,放疗在老年人群的治疗中扮演着越来越重要的角色。但老年小细胞肺癌的治疗目前尚无统一标准,本文就老年小细胞肺癌治疗的最新研究进展进行综述。

Recently,the incidence rate of small cell lung cancer in elderly patients has been increasing . The mainly therapeutic approach of small cell lung cancer consists of radiotherapy ,chemotherapy and surgery ,with the treatment purpose of prolonging survival time and improving life quality .As the huge development of accurate radiotherapy technology occurred in the past a few years ,radiotherapy could play more and more important roles in the treatment with elderly patients .Yet,there is no unified standards of treatment for small cell lung cancer in eld-erly patients.Therefore,we give a review on the latest processes and research on the treatment of small cells lung cancer in elderly patients .