Comprehensive geriatric assessment adds information to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status in elderly cancer patients: An Italian Group for Geriatric Oncology study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 494-502

  Repetto, Lazzaro ^a   Fratino, Lucia ^a   Audisio, Riccardo A ^a   Venturino, Antonella ^a   Gianni, Walter ^a   Vercelli, Marina ^a   Parodi, Stefano ^a   Dal Lago, Denise ^a   Gioia, Flora ^a   Monfardini, Silvio ^a   Aapro, Matti S ^a   Serraino, Diego ^a   Zagonel, Vittorina ^a  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037080281     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.20.2.494     Document Type: Article

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