Geriatric oncology

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 644-645

  Gosney, Margot A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; INFUSION FLUID; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

APACHE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FALLING; GERIATRICS; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MYOPATHY; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350672644     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp182     Document Type: Note

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