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.

Cancer care has not caught up. Most cancer diagnoses occur after age 65, yet medicine still treats older adults as if they ...

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. Approximately 60% of ...

The prediction in the 1980s of a rapid rise in older patients with cancer has come true. Despite these predictions, we were unprepared. There is a shortage of oncologists overall, with many older ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Older patients' survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer had a significant association with baseline vulnerabilities and quality-of-life (QoL) factors, beyond performance status, data ...

The WVU Cancer Institute in Morgantown, W.Va., is set to open a new geriatric oncology clinic in August. The clinic will provide care for older adult cancer patients, aiming to assess patients’ ...

The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) has emerged as a valuable prognostic tool in the management of cancer among elderly patients. Formulated from serum albumin levels and the ratio of present ...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center leader co-chaired an international expert panel that drafted new global guidelines for conducting geriatric assessments of older people with cancer in parts of ...

Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program leads to better postoperative outcomes and preserves independence in older cancer patients undergoing ...

Treatment recommendations for all stages of bladder cancer have been proposed in the form of clinical guidelines from the European Association of Urology and the American Urological Association.

ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO ...