Geriatrics and haematological malignancies: Is comprehensive geriatric assessment a useful tool?

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Noens, Lucien ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; LENALIDOMIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OFATUMOMAB; PANOBINOSTAT; POMALIDOMIDE; PONATINIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRICS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MDS SPECIFIC COMORBIDITY INDEX; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 80053281445     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(11)70204-0     Document Type: Article

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