Pretreatment quality of life and functional status assessment significantly predict survival of elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy: a prognostic analysis of the multicenter Italian lung cancer in the elderly study.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on October 01, 2005

Authors

Paolo Maione1, Francesco Perrone, Ciro Gallo, Luigi Manzione, FrancoVito Piantedosi, Santi Barbera, Silvio Cigolari, Francesco Rosetti, Elena Piazza, Sergio Federico Robbiati, Oscar Bertetto, Silvia Novello, Maria Rita Migliorino, Adolfo Favaretto, Mario Spatafora, Francesco Ferraù, Luciano Frontini, Alessandra Bearz, Lazzaro Repetto, Cesare Gridelli, Emiddio Barletta, Maria Luisa Barzelloni, Rosario Vincenzo Iaffaioli, Ermelinda De Maio, Massimo Di Maio, Gianfranco De Feo, Giuseppe Sigoriello, Paolo Chiodini, Angela Cioffi, Vincenzo Guardasole, Valentina Angelini, Antonio Rossi, Domenico Bilancia, Domenico Germano, Alfredo Lamberti, Vittorio Pontillo, Luigi Brancaccio, Francesco Renda, Francesco Romano, Gabriella Esani, Anna Gambaro, Orazio Vinante, Giuseppe Azzarello, Maurizia Clerici, Roberto Bollina, Paolo Belloni, Mirella Sannicolò, Libero Ciuffreda, Giuseppe Parello, Mary Cabiddu, Cosimo Sacco, Angela Sibau, Gianfranco Porcile, Federico Castiglione, Oliviero Ostellino, Silvio Monfardini, Micaela Stefani, Giorgio Scagliotti, Giovanni Selvaggi, Filippo De Marinis, Olga Martelli, Giampietro Gasparini, Alessandro Morabito, Domenico Gattuso, Giuseppe Colucci, Domenico Galetta, Francesco Giotta, Vittorio Gebbia, Nicola Borsellino, Antonio Testa, Emilia Malaponte, Matteo A Capuano, Michele Angiolillo, Francesco Sollitto, Umberto Tirelli, Simona Spazzapan, Vincenzo Adamo, Giuseppe Altavilla, Antonio Scimone, Maria Raffaella Hopps, Francesco Tartamella, Giovanni Pietro Ianniello, Vincenza Tinessa, Giuseppe Failla, Roberto Bordonaro, Nicola Gebbia, Maria Rosaria Valerio, Modesto D'Aprile, Enzo Veltri, Maurizio Tonato, Samir Darwish, Sante Romito, Francesco Carrozza, Sandro Barni, Antonio Ardizzoia, Giuliana Mara Corradini, Gianfranco Pavia, Mario Belli, Giuseppe Colantuoni, Enzo Galligioni, Orazio Caffo, Roberto Labianca, Antonello Quadri, Enrico Cortesi, Giuliana D'Auria, Sergio Fava, Anna Calcagno, Gino Luporini, M Cristina Locatelli, Francesco Di Costanzo, Silvia Gasperoni, Luciano Isa, Paola Candido, Fernando Gaion, Giovanni Palazzolo, Giuseppe Nettis, Anselmo Annamaria, Massimo Rinaldi, Massimo Lopez, Raffaella Felletti, Giorgio Bernabò Di Negro, Nestore Rossi, Antonio Calandriello, Luigi Maiorino, Rodolfo Mattioli, Alfredo Celano, Stefania Schiavon, Alfonso Illiano, Carlo Alberto Raucci, Michele Caruso, Paolo Foa, Giuseppe Tonini, Carlo Curcio, Marina Cazzaniga

Author Affiliations

1: S Giuseppe Moscati Hospital, Avellino, Italy.

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