Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

Our physicians, geriatric nurse practitioner and social workers offer a variety of clinical services to older patients, including comprehensive geriatric assessment; in-hospital consultation; ...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) can contribute valuable information to oncologists for risk stratification of elderly cancer patients. Functional impairments, frailty markers, cognitive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients referred from a short-stay acute medical unit, those receiving a comprehensive geriatric ...

Patients age ≥ 65 with cancer, who enrolled on cooperative group cancer trials, were eligible to enroll on Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 360401. They completed a geriatric assessment tool before ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – By a tremendous margin – over 95 percent – older Americans choose to live at home or with relatives. Families making that choice should consider seeking the assistance of a geriatric ...

One-third of new early breast cancer diagnoses occur in women over 70 years old. However, older women are less likely to receive radical curative treatments. This study prospectively evaluated a ...

Many patients demonstrate impairment in several of the domains described above. Problems with managing medications, nutrition and driving are a consequence of many medical and functional impairments, ...

"Early in life, as toddlers and youngsters, we accumulate skills, which we call activities of daily living (IADLs), such as dressing, eating and personal hygiene," says Troen. "Unfortunately -- and ...