Analysis of prognostic factors of comprehensive geriatric assessment and development of a clinical scoring system in elderly Asian patients with cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 3620-3627

  Kanesvaran, Ravindran ^a   Li, Huihua ^b   Koo, Khai Nee ^a   Poon, Donald ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASIA; CALIBRATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80053072110     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.32.0796     Document Type: Article

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