Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment/Volume 6/Issue 4/October-December 2023
clinical definition that allows physicians to identify patients with critically diminished …

Background To assess and compare the ability of five mobility indices to predict 6-month
mortality in older patients with cancer. Methods All consecutive ambulatory older patients …

Purpose Frailty assessment is often overlooked in non-elderly patients with cancer, possibly
due to the lack of an effective frailty screening tool. This study aimed to evaluate the …

Objectives A growing number of older patients with cancer require well-founded clinical
decision-making. Frailty screening is suggested as a service to improve outcomes in …

Background Several simultaneous impairments in physical ability may be an indication of
frailty in adult survivors of childhood cancer (CCS). The aim of our study was to assess the …

Objective Evidence regarding the role of physical frailty in cancer-related outcomes is
limited. We aimed to examine the association of frailty with cancer incidence and mortality …

Results A sample of 1,321 older adults with cancer was included in the analysis,
representing a weighted population of 6.84 million. Most participants were 65–74 years old …

Objectives A consensual and operational definition of frailty is necessary in geriatric
oncology. While many studies have focused on geriatric syndromes evaluated in the …

Objectives To quantify the prognostic importance of prefrailty and frailty in a population‐
based sample of cancer survivors. Design The Third National Health and Nutrition …

Background: Childhood cancer survivors experience reduced physiologic reserve, or frailty,
earlier and more frequently than peers. In other populations, frailty is impacted by one's …