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Geriatric Oncology: Past, Present, Future

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Efforts to integrate geriatric oncology principles in the training of all medical oncologists are underway.
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Efforts to integrate geriatric oncology principles in the training of all medical oncologists are underway.

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Polypharmacy in hospitalized older adult cancer patients: experience from a prospective, observational study of an oncology-acute care for elders unit.

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Adolescent and young adult oncology training for health professionals: a position statement.

TL;DR: The LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance, a Lance Armstrong Foundation program and a result of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Progress Review Group, assembled a group of experts representing relevant medical, psychosocial, and advocacy disciplines to create a blueprint for the training and development of health care professionals caring for AYA patients with cancer.
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Educational initiatives in geriatric oncology – Who, why, and how?

TL;DR: Key strategies to accelerate the uptake and impact of educational initiatives to address this gap include the use of effective educational strategies, broad dissemination of educational material that is freely available, and the integration of geriatric oncology topics into teaching, curriculum, assessments and exams.
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The adolescence of young adult oncology.

TL;DR: The field must strengthen its research in clinical trials and comparative outcomes, and must articulate the key competencies that distinguish a practitioner of young adult oncology (both to define clinical programs and educational curricula).
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TL;DR: In this paper, it has been stated in this article and elsewhere that cancer patients aged 65 years and older deserve special attention as a target group for research efforts across the cancer-control spectrum.
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International Society of Geriatric Oncology Chemotherapy Taskforce: Evaluation of Chemotherapy in Older Patients—An Analysis of the Medical Literature

TL;DR: Clinical trials need to incorporate an analysis of chemotherapy in terms of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects of aging, and data already accumulated need to be reanalyzed by age to aid in the management of the older cancer patient.
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Aging and cancer.

TL;DR: Physicians and oncologists need to be prepared for the projected increase of cancer in older persons and a new subspecialty is evolving: geriatric oncology.