Geriatric assessment of older patients with cancer in Australia-A multicentre audit

Journal of Geriatric Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 185-193

  Lakhanpal, Roopa ^a   Yoong, Jaclyn ^b   Joshi, Sachin ^c   Yip, Desmond ^a,d   Mileshkin, Linda ^b   Marx, Gavin M ^e   Dunlop, Tracey ^f   Hovey, Elizabeth J ^f   Della Fiorentina, Stephen A ^g   Venkateswaran, Lakshmi ^h   Tattersall, Martin H N ⁱ   Liew, Sem ^c   Field, Kathryn ^j   Singhal, Nimit ^k   Steer, Christopher B ^c  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Border Medical Oncology Australia   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SYDNEY ADVENTIST HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre   (Australia)

^h WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^k ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Geriatric assessment; Geriatric oncology; Medical oncology; Multidisciplinary meetings; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84930480442     PISSN: 18794068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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