FIND ARTICLE

HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES IN OLDER PATIENTS

In the near future increasing number of elderly patients with haematological malignancies will require chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. The high dose or even standard chemotherapy usually results in higher, than in younger patients, percentage of life-threatening myelosupression and deaths. This phenomenon in elderly patients is not clear. There are reports suggesting that in elderly patients age-related changes are not so different comparing to younger subjects. In elderly patients anti-tumour response is reduced but function of dendritic cells in these patients is preserved.

The Editorial Board
Andrzej Łukaszyk - przewodniczący, Zofia Bielańska-Osuchowska, Szczepan Biliński, Mieczysław Chorąży, Aleksander Koj, Włodzimierz Korochoda, Leszek Kuźnicki, Aleksandra Stojałowska, Lech Wojtczak

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