Performance status and comorbidity in elderly cancer patients compared with young patients with neoplasia and elderly patients without neoplastic conditions

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 760-765

  Repetto, Lazzaro ^a   Venturino, Antonella ^a   Vercelli, Marina ^a,b   Gianni, Walter ^c   Biancardi, Vittorio ^a   Casella, Claudia ^a   Granetto, Cristina ^a   Parodi, Stefano ^a   Rosso, Riccardo ^a   Marigliano, Vincenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer; Comorbidity; Performance status

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032519627     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980215)82:4<760::AID-CNCR20>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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