Formal geriatric assessment: An imperative for the older person with cancer

Cancer Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-86

  Roche, Richard J ^a   Forman, Walter B ^b   Rhyne, Robert L ^b  

^a Infect Dis and Int Med Assoc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

age; cancer treatment decisions; geriatric assessment; geriatrics; gerontology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031003126     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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