Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer is a disease that disproportionately affects the elderly, and current guidelines recommend a ...

G8 as a screening tool for comprehensive geriatric assessment in patients with breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

Efficacy and tolerability of immune checkpoint inhibitors in elderly patients with MSI/dMMR gastrointestinal cancers and impact of toxicities on efficacy: The immunoMSI cohort. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients referred from a short-stay acute medical unit, those receiving a comprehensive geriatric ...

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 ...

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

A brief version of the traditional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary care and community health settings could identify older adults with unmet needs or geriatric syndromes, but it doesn’t ...

Our physicians, geriatric nurse practitioner and social workers offer a variety of clinical services to older patients, including comprehensive geriatric assessment; in-hospital consultation; ...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — "Cancer care in the elderly must include a geriatrician," according to Margot Gosney, MD, professor of elderly care medicine at Reading University in the United Kingdom.