Complicated and complex: Helping the older patient with cancer to exit the labyrinth

Journal of Geriatric Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 116-118

  Balducci, Lodovico ^a   Aapro, Matti ^b  

^a Cancer Center   (United States)

^b CLINIQUE DE GENOLIER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELDERLY CARE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AGED; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84893650283     PISSN: 18794068     EISSN: 18794076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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