Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer is a disease that disproportionately affects the elderly, and current guidelines recommend a ...

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

Dr. Cris Bergerot and Dr. Enrique Soto join the podcast to discuss the new global guideline on geriatric assessment. This guideline provides evidence-based, resource-stratified recommendations across ...

A brief version of the traditional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary care and community health settings could identify older adults with unmet needs or geriatric syndromes, but it doesn’t ...

Efficacy and tolerability of immune checkpoint inhibitors in elderly patients with MSI/dMMR gastrointestinal cancers and impact of toxicities on efficacy: The immunoMSI cohort. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

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 ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...

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.

A nurse-led comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department (ED) reduced hospital admissions by 11.6% for older adults, without extending ED stays or boosting return visits, a recent ...

Findings show no increase in emergency department length of stay or subsequent emergency department revisits. (HealthDay News) — A comprehensive assessment of older adults being seen in the emergency ...