Geriatric oncology and palliative medicine

Seminars in Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 362-366

  Haddad, Abdo ^a,b   Shepard, Dale ^a  

^a TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; MYELOMA; NEOPLASM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ONCOLOGY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLYPHARMACY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956196727     PISSN: 00937754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2011.03.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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