Functional versus chronological age: geriatric assessments to guide decision making in older patients with cancer

E Soto-Perez-de-Celis, D Li, Y Yuan, YM Lau… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
As the worldwide population ages, oncologists are often required to make difficult and
complex decisions regarding the treatment of older people (aged 65 years and older) with …

Management of elderly patients with breast cancer: updated recommendations of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) and European Society of …

L Biganzoli, H Wildiers, C Oakman, L Marotti… - The lancet …, 2012 - thelancet.com
As the mean age of the global population increases, breast cancer in older individuals will
be increasingly encountered in clinical practice. Management decisions should not be …

Predicting the risk of chemotherapy toxicity in older patients: The Chemotherapy Risk Assessment Scale for High‐Age Patients (CRASH) score

M Extermann, I Boler, RR Reich, GH Lyman… - Cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Tools are lacking to assess the individual risk of severe toxicity from
chemotherapy. Such tools would be especially useful for older patients, who vary …

Randomized phase II/III trial assessing gemcitabine/carboplatin and methotrexate/carboplatin/vinblastine in patients with advanced urothelial cancer who are unfit for …

M De Santis, J Bellmunt, G Mead, JM Kerst… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose This is the first randomized phase II/III trial comparing two carboplatin-based
chemotherapy regimens in patients with urothelial cancer who are ineligible (“unfit”) for …

Appropriate chemotherapy dosing for obese adult patients with cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline

JJ Griggs, PB Mangu, H Anderson… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To provide recommendations for appropriate cytotoxic chemotherapy dosing for
obese adult patients with cancer. Methods The American Society of Clinical Oncology …

Carboplatin and weekly paclitaxel doublet chemotherapy compared with monotherapy in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: IFCT-0501 …

E Quoix, G Zalcman, JP Oster, V Westeel, E Pichon… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Platinum-based doublet chemotherapy is recommended to treat advanced non-
small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in fit, non-elderly adults, but monotherapy is recommended …

Renal impairment in patients with multiple myeloma: a consensus statement on behalf of the International Myeloma Working Group

MA Dimopoulos, E Terpos, A Chanan-Khan… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - ascopubs.org
Renal impairment is a common complication of multiple myeloma (MM). The estimated
glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula is …

Defining cisplatin eligibility in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

DM Jiang, S Gupta, A Kitchlu, A Meraz-Munoz… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The current treatment paradigm for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) consists of
cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by local definitive therapy, or local …

EORTC elderly task force position paper: approach to the older cancer patient

AG Pallis, C Fortpied, U Wedding, MC Van Nes… - European journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
As a result of an increasing life expectancy, the incidence of cancer cases diagnosed in the
older population is rising. Indeed, cancer incidence is 11-fold higher in persons over the age …

Association between age at diagnosis and disease-specific mortality among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer

W van de Water, C Markopoulos, CJH van de Velde… - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context In addition to classic tumor-related prognostic factors, patient characteristics may be
associated with breast cancer outcome. Objective To assess the association between age at …