Functional assessment of the older patient with cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 916-922

  Schubert, Cathy C ^a   Gross, Cary ^b   Hurria, Arti ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c City of Hope ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SELF REPORT; SHORT PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BATTERY; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 55449083412     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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