Organizing the geriatrician/oncologist partnership: One size fits all? Practical solutions

Cancer and Aging: From Bench to Clinics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 132-138

  Holmes, Holly M ^a   Albrand, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

AGED; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 84925834154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1159/000343615     Document Type: Chapter

References (20)

1. Jemal A, Bray F, Center MM, et al: Global cancer statistics. CA Cancer J Clin 2011;61:69-90.
2. US Census Bureau: An older and more diverse nation by midcentury. http://www.census.gov/newsroom/ releases/archives/population/cb08-123.html.
3. Yancik R, Ries LA: Aging and cancer in America. Demographic and epidemiologic perspectives. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 2000;14:17-23.
4. Smith BD, Smith GL, Hurria A, et al: Future of cancer incidence in the United States: burdens upon an aging, changing nation. J Clin Oncol 2009;27:2758-2765.
5. Hurria A, Leung D, Trainor K, et al: Factors influencing treatment patterns of breast cancer patients age 75 and older. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2003;46:121-126.
6. Wang S, Wong ML, Hamilton N, et al: Impact of age and comorbidity on non-small-cell lung cancer treatment in older veterans. J Clin Oncol 2012;30:1447-1455.
7. Hardy D, Cormier JN, Xing Y, et al: Chemotherapyassociated toxicity in a large cohort of elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2010;5:90-98.
8. Repetto L: Greater risks of chemotherapy toxicity in elderly patients with cancer. J Support Oncol 2003; 1(suppl 2):18-24.
9. Erikson C, Schulman S, Kosty M, Hanley A: Oncology Workforce: results of the ASCO 2007 Program Directors Survey. J Oncol Pract 2009;5:62-65.
10. ADGAP Workforce Study. http://www.adgapstudy. uc.edu/ (accessed July 2012).
11. Leipzig RM, Hall WJ, Fried LP: Treating our societal scotoma: the case for investing in geriatrics, our nation's future, and our patients. Ann Intern Med 2012;156:657-659.
12. Extermann M, Aapro M, Audisio R, et al: The SIOG 10 Priorities Initiative. 2011. http://www.siog.org.
13. Cohen HJ: A model for the shared care of elderly patients with cancer. J Am Geriatr Soc 2009; 57(suppl 2):S300-S302.
14. Sifer-Riviere L, Saint-Jean O, Gisselbrecht M, et al: What the specific tools of geriatrics and oncology can tell us about the role and status of geriatricians in a pilot geriatric oncology program. Ann Oncol 2011;22:2325-2329.
15. Hurria A: Incorporation of geriatric principles in oncology clinical trials. J Clin Oncol 2007;25:5350-5351.
16. Mohile SG, Wildiers H: A call for observational cohort studies in geriatric oncology. J Geriatr Oncol 2012;3:291-293.
17. Bellera CA, Rainfray M, Mathoulin-Pelissier S, et al:Screening older cancer patients: first evaluation of the G-8 geriatric screening tool. Ann Oncol 2012;23:2166-2172.
18. Mohile SG, Bylow K, Dale W, et al: A pilot study of the Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 compared with the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for identifying disability in older patients with prostate cancer who receive androgen ablation. Cancer 2007;109:802-810.
19. Lazarovici C, Khodabakhshi R, Leignel D, et al: Factors leading oncologists to refer elderly cancer patients for geriatric assessment. J Geriatr Oncol 2011;2:194-199.
20. Monfardini S, Giordano G, Sandri R, Gnocchi PL, Galetti G: Bringing geriatrics into oncology or also oncology into geriatrics? Ann Oncol 2012;23:801.