Beyond “Age”: Frailty Assessment Strategies Improve Care of Older Patients with Cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3774-3775

  Audisio, Riccardo A ^a   van Leeuwen, Barbara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; FRAILTY ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRICIAN; HUMAN; LOCAL THERAPY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE MASS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSOAS MUSCLE; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPONSIBILITY; SARCOPENIA; SURGICAL ONCOLOGIST; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPLICATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSOAS MUSCLES; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84943251598     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-015-4772-0     Document Type: Editorial

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