Focus on the assessment of physical activity level of patients with cancer cachexia enrolled in a randomized phase III clinical trial. Background: Certain components of the comprehensive geriatric ...

A phase II trial of extended interval port-a-cath (PAC) flushes. Background: EP are a large portion of cancer patients but few of them have access to optimal treatments, including EP affected by ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

AHA: Increased Cancer Risk for Patients With Heart Failure For older patients hospitalized with heart failure, a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) score is associated with mortality over two ...

Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients referred from a short-stay acute medical unit, those receiving a comprehensive geriatric ...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — "Cancer care in the elderly must include a geriatrician," according to Margot Gosney, MD, professor of elderly care medicine at Reading University in the United Kingdom.

Physical aging affects functioning of the human body. It reduces the viability at all levels (cells, molecules, tissues, organs, and control systems) and increases the vulnerability to diseases and ...

Older adults who had colorectal surgery were found to have reduced postoperative complications if they started the Geriatric Oncology Service. Starting the Geriatric Oncology Service (GOS) was found ...

Drexel Family Medicine’s Geriatric Home Visit (GHV) Program delivers comprehensive geriatric assessment, primary medical care and coordinated social services to homebound older adults in Philadelphia ...