Curative treatment incorporating subjective decisions on age and frailty is not beneficial for older patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma

Alice Prevost; Hugo Poncet; Victor Benvegnu; Vinciane Poulet; Jacqueline Butterworth; Andréa Varazzani; Frédéric Lauwers; Franck Delanoë

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0330376

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Curative treatment incorporating subjective decisions on age and frailty is not beneficial for older patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma

Alice Prevost ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: prevost.a@chu-toulouse.fr

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2903-0644

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Hugo Poncet,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Victor Benvegnu,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Vinciane Poulet,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Jacqueline Butterworth,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Andréa Varazzani,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Lyon Sud Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Claude-Bernard Lyon 1 University, Pierre-Bénite, France
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Frédéric Lauwers,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Franck Delanoë

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Pierre-Paul Riquet Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1001-9827

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Curative treatment incorporating subjective decisions on age and frailty is not beneficial for older patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma

Alice Prevost,
Hugo Poncet,
Victor Benvegnu,
Vinciane Poulet,
Jacqueline Butterworth,
Andréa Varazzani,
Frédéric Lauwers,
Franck Delanoë

Published: August 25, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330376

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