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 ...
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 ...
Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...
Dr. Cris Bergerot and Dr. Enrique Soto join the podcast to discuss the new global guideline on geriatric assessment. This guideline provides evidence-based, resource-stratified recommendations across ...
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 ...
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 ...
Advancements in medicine allow for complex procedures in advanced-age patients who are frail and vulnerable. Chronological age alone cannot effectively gauge frailty. Stressors affect a frail body ...
With the advancement in social economics, living standards, and healthcare, the aging trend is prominent worldwide, and China is not an exception. The results of the seventh census in 2020 in China ...
The Comprehensive Health Assessment for My Plan, or CHAMP, will be tested among patients and clinicians in both oncology and non-oncology settings. Another pilot study will examine a combination of ...
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 ...
Credit: Getty Images Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition. As patients live longer, it ...
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 ...
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