Management of elderly and frail elderly cancer patients: The importance of comprehensive geriatrics assessment and the need for guidelines

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-69

  Ruiz, Marco ^a,c   Reske, Tom ^b   Cefalu, Charles ^a   Estrada, John ^c  

^a Department of Family Medicine   (United States)

^b Section of Hematology Oncology   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Comprehensive geriatrics assessment; Elderly patients; Frailty; Management

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ERLOTINIB; EVEROLIMUS; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TAMOXIFEN; TEMSIROLIMUS; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSENSUS; FRAIL ELDERLY; GOLD STANDARD; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SPINE FRACTURE; THERAPY EFFECT; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 84880223561     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31826d59aa     Document Type: Review

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