Which patients should receive geriatric assessment before chemotherapy?

Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 3-6

  Cudennec, Tristan ^a   Mitry, Emmanuel ^a   Moulias, Sophie ^a   Vaillant, Jean Nicolas ^a   Teillet, Laurent ^a   Rougier, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 38149142598     PISSN: 14799995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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