Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

Palliative care as a predictor of healthcare resource use at end-of-life in adult Albertan lung cancer decedents between 2008-2015: A secondary data analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

The assessment tools described in the geriatric oncology literature are often referred to as comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). The multidimensional CGA includes a compilation of reliable and ...

A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...

One-third of new early breast cancer diagnoses occur in women over 70 years old. However, older women are less likely to receive radical curative treatments. This study prospectively evaluated a ...

In this review, we first provide a brief overview of frailty, including biologic mechanisms, measurement, and clinical management. This overview is followed by a discussion of approaches to ...

Oncologists have adopted new ways of caring for older adults with cancer over the past decade and a half. Cancer treatment for older adults has shifted toward these specialists prescribing newer ...