Due to the ageing of the population and the sharp increase in life expectancy, cancer in the
older person has become an increasingly common problem in the Western world. Although …

A growing and diverse aging population, recent advances in research on aging and cancer,
and the fact that a disproportional burden of cancer still occurs in people aged 65 years and …

The answer to these questions may be provided by a multidimensional assessment of the
older person that accounts for individual variations in life expectancy, health and ability to …

It is a great privilege for us to introduce the second special issue ofJournal of Clinical
Oncology (JCO) to be devoted to geriatric oncology. The first special issue, which was …

The proportion of older cancer patients is increasing due to demographic and disease-
specific reasons. However, this group of patients is severely underrepresented in research …

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Cancer is increasingly a disease of the aged, a segment of the population that is the fastest
growing. Often, cancer adds on to the progressive deterioration of normal aging and to the …

The incidence of cancer increases with advanced age and the majority of cancer deaths are
in patients aged≥ 65. The geriatric population is a heterogeneous group and a patient's …

BACKGROUND:: As more and more cancers occur in elderly people, oncologists are
increasingly confronted with the necessity of integrating geriatric parameters in the treatment …

The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), originally developed by geriatricians as a
multidimensional evaluation of the older patients, has become in the recent years a …