Geriatric principles for patients with cancer

Comprehensive geriatric assessment for patients with cancer - UpToDate

Identifiable comorbid conditions and organ-specific physiologic changes due to aging can limit a patient's ability to tolerate cancer therapy. In addition, the aging process can be associated with decreased physiologic reserve affecting multiple systems. This can be manifested as frailty and can interfere with the functional status of the patient, even in the absence of specific comorbidities. ...

Studies of comprehensive geriatric assessment in patients with cancer.

BACKGROUND The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) has been developed to individually assess the health status of older patients. METHODS This article reviews the findings regarding the impact of a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) on treatment and outcomes in patients with cancer. RESULTS Several geriatric variables have been linked with the prognosis of older cancer patients, ...

Assessing for suicide risk in depressed geriatric cancer patients.

Although several studies have identified different factors that increase the risk for suicide in the elderly, depression, especially in cancer patients, puts people at even greater risk. In geriatric patients with co-morbid illnesses, depression is often undiagnosed or overlooked because of the assumption that it is to be expected. When patients with cancer are diagnosed with depression, it is ...

A Novel Geriatric Screening Tool in Older Patients with Cancer: The Korean Cancer Study Group Geriatric Score (KG)-7

Geriatric assessment (GA) is resource-consuming, necessitating screening tools to select appropriate patients who need full GA. The objective of this study is to design a novel geriatric screening tool with easy-to-answer questions and high performance objectively selected from a large dataset to represent each domain of GA. A development cohort was constructed from 1284 patients who received G...

Geriatric Nephrology: Its Principles and Aims