Answer questions and earn CME/CNE The concept of frailty has become increasingly
recognized as one of the most important issues in health care and health outcomes and is of …

Ageing is correlated with elevated bladder cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality.
Advanced age is also associated with elevated markers of chronic inflammation and …

Background Cancer is common in older adults, who often have concurrent frailty. Frailty is a
strong predictor of adverse outcomes in surgical patients. Our objective is to systematically …

Background In patients with bladder cancer, poor functional status has remarkable
deleterious effects on postoperative outcome and prognosis. Conditioning intervention …

Background: An objective measure is needed to identify frail older adults with cancer who
are at increased risk for poor health outcomes. The primary objective of this study was to …

Background Pancreatic cancer is a disease of older adults, who may present with limited
physiologic reserve. The authors hypothesized that a frailty index can predict postoperative …

Bladder cancer is the 10th most common cancer type in the world. There were more than
573,000 new cases of bladder cancer in 2020. It is the 13th most common cause of cancer …

Background and Objectives Frailty disproportionately impacts older patients with
gastrointestinal cancer, rendering them at increased risk for poor outcomes. A frailty index …

Purpose Frailty has been correlated with worse postoperative outcomes. Prospective studies
examining frailty and bladder cancer are lacking. We aimed to determine whether a …

Background: Relatively few studies investigated the importance of frailty in radical
cystectomy (RC) patients. We tested the ability of frailty, using the Johns Hopkins Adjusted …