How should we care for elderly cancer patients?

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Feilchenfeldt, Jonas ^a   Shah, Manish A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 63249114318     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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