Developing a cancer-specific geriatric assessment: A feasibility study

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1998-2005

  Hurria, Arti ^a   Gupta, Supriya ^b   Zauderer, Marjorie ^c   Zuckerman, Enid L ^a   Cohen, Harvey J ^d   Muss, Hyman ^e   Rodin, Miriam ^b   Panageas, Katherine S ^a   Holland, Jimmie C ^a   Saltz, Leonard ^a   Kris, Mark G ^a   Noy, Ariela ^a   Gomez, Jorge ^a   Jakubowski, Ann ^a   Hudis, Clifford ^a   Kornblith, Alice B ^f  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Geriatric assessment; Older patient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; MARITAL STATUS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 27244441470     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21422     Document Type: Review

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