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Relevance of a systematic geriatric screening and assessment in older patients with cancer: results of a prospective multicentric study

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Geriatric screening and assessment in older patients with cancer is feasible at large scale and has a significant impact on the detection of unknown geriatric problems, leading to geriatric interventions and adapted treatment.
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This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 301 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mass screening.

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Is age a risk factor for depression among the oldest old with cancer

TL;DR: Depression among older patients with cancer rises with increasing age, being extremely common among the oldest old, and the importance of addressing the potentially unmet psychological needs of this rapidly growing patient population is highlighted.
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Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in elderly patients. A systematic literature review

TL;DR: In studies that stratified for elderly patients, PCI, completeness of cytoreduction, tumor histology and albumin levels were predictive factors of survival, but older adults undergoing cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC consistently had lower survival rates than younger individuals.
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Impact of anxio-depressive symptoms and cognitive function on oral anticancer therapies adherence

TL;DR: Focusing on depressive symptoms before initiation of oral anticancer therapy could help to identify patient profiles more likely to fail self-management and working memory, digit memory, and short-term memory also seem to play a role in non-adherence.
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Models of Care in Geriatric Oncology Nursing

TL;DR: Oncology nurses can benefit from learning key skills of comprehensive geriatric screening and assessment to improve the care they provide for older adults with cancer.
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Screening older cancer patients: first evaluation of the G-8 geriatric screening tool

TL;DR: The G-8 shows good screening properties for identifying elderly cancer patients who could benefit from comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and has a cut-off value of 14 for the primary reference test, without deteriorating the specificity excessively.
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Developing a Cancer-Specific Geriatric Assessment: A Feasibility Study

TL;DR: A brief, but comprehensive, primarily self‐administered cancer‐specific geriatric assessment measure is developed and its feasibility is determined as measured by the percentage of patients able to complete the measure on their own, the length of time to complete, and patient satisfaction with the measure.
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Undertreatment Strongly Decreases Prognosis of Breast Cancer in Elderly Women

TL;DR: Half of elderly patients with breast cancer are undertreated, with strongly decreased specific survival as a consequence, and treatments need to be adapted to the patient's health status, but also should offer the best chance of cure.
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