The elderly cancer patient: A nursing perspective

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 235-245

  Colussi, A M ^a   Mazzer, L ^a   Candotto, D ^a   De Biasi, M ^a   De Lorenzi, L ^a   Pin, I ^a   Pusiol, N ^a   Romanin, C ^a   Zamattio, V ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly cancer patient; Geriatric assessment; Problems of hospitalisation; Treatment related nursing care

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT; VINCA ALKALOID;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STOMATITIS; TERMINAL DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING;

EID: 0034902843     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-8428(00)00116-5     Document Type: Review

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