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Mashup Score: 40Geriatric Assessment Impairment Profiles and Mortality in Older Adults with Gastrointestinal Cancers: Latent Class Analysis of the CARE Registry - 5 month(s) ago
AbstractBackground. Many older adults with cancer have ≥2 impairments on geriatric assessment which impacts present and future frailty status, treatment tolerab
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Mashup Score: 50
Older patients with frailty starting oncological treatment are at higher risk of experiencing declining physical performance, loss of independence, and quality of life (QoL). This study examines whether comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)-guided interventions added to standard oncological care can prevent declining physical performance and QoL in older patients with frailty initiating palliative treatment.
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Mashup Score: 39
Older patients with frailty starting oncological treatment are at higher risk of experiencing declining physical performance, loss of independence, and quality of life (QoL). This study examines whether comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)-guided interventions added to standard oncological care can prevent declining physical performance and QoL in older patients with frailty initiating palliative treatment.
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Mashup Score: 36Unipedal stance time is associated with fall outcomes in older chemotherapy-treated cancer survivors: A retrospective study - 5 month(s) ago
By 2040, 19 million adults over the age of 65 will have a history of cancer. Falls in older cancer survivors have serious implications including missed cancer treatments and being associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and a decreased quality of life [1–3]. Many risk factors are thought to contribute to falls in cancer survivors, including age, frailty, fatigue, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, and lab abnormalities in addition to impairments in functional status, balance, vestibular function, vision, and cognition [4–6].
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Mashup Score: 84Frailty assessment and management in oncology services | The Royal College of Radiologists - 6 month(s) ago
Frailty is defined as “A medical syndrome with multiple causes and contributors that is characterised by diminished strength, endurance, and reduced physiologic function that increases an individual’s vulnerability….”
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Mashup Score: 4Research Associate I - Geriatric Oncology at Kaiser Permanente - 6 month(s) ago
Learn more about applying for Research Associate I – Geriatric Oncology at Kaiser Permanente
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Mashup Score: 124
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and ASCO are publishing a new edition of the ESMO/ASCO Global Curriculum (GC) with contributions from more than 150 authors. The purpose of the GC is to provide recommendations for the training of physicians in medical oncology and to establish a set of educational standards for trainees to qualify as medical oncologists. This edition builds on prior ones in 2004, 2010, and 2016 and incorporates scientific advances and input from an ESMO ASCO survey on GC adoption conducted in 2019, which revealed that GC has been adopted or adapted in as many as two thirds of the countries surveyed. To make GC even more useful and applicable, certain subchapters were rearranged into stand-alone chapters, that is, cancer epidemiology, diagnostics, and research. In line with recent progress in the field of multidisciplinary cancer care new (sub)chapters, such as image-guided therapy, cell-based therapy, and nutritional support, were added. Moreover, this
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Hot off the press the new @ASCO @myESMO global curriculum recommendations for Cancer Care in Older Adults #gerionc Every oncologist should have key competencies in geriatric care! We hope this gets integrated in programs globally @HansWildiers @SIOGorg https://t.co/zMPr2Ql4iL https://t.co/jdO426Lqvq
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Mashup Score: 0Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and quality of life among older patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic - 6 month(s) ago
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its associated health restrictions have harmed the population psychologically. We aimed to compare the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and Quality of Life (QoL) in older French patients with cancer to the younger ones.
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Mashup Score: 0Associations between race/ethnicity and SEER-CAHPS patient care experiences among female Medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer - 6 month(s) ago
We aimed to determine if racial/ethnic disparities exist in survivorship care patient experiences among older breast cancer survivors.
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Mashup Score: 0What Is Most Important to Family Caregivers When Helping Patients Make Treatment-Related Decisions: Findings from a National Survey - 6 month(s) ago
Prioritizing patient values—who/what matters most—is central to palliative care and critical to treatment decision making. Yet which factors are most important to family caregivers in these decisions remains understudied. Using data from a U.S. national survey of cancer caregivers (N = 1661), we examined differences in factors considered very important by caregivers when partnering with patients in cancer treatment decision making by cancer stage and caregiver sociodemographics. Fifteen factors were rated on a 4-point Likert-scale from ‘very unimportant’ to ‘very important.’ Descriptive statistics were used to characterize caregiver factors and tabulate proportions of importance for each. Generalized linear mixed effect modeling was used to examine the importance of factors by cancer stage, and chi-square analyses were performed to determine associations between caregiver sociodemographics and the five most commonly endorsed factors: quality of life (69%), physical well-being (68%), le
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Using latent class analysis, 6 geriatric assessment impairment classes showed a wider spread of mortality estimates compared to frailty categories @LundJenny @corp_UNC @myCARG #GeriOnc @UAB_ICOS @SIOGorg https://t.co/62OAhU46Uq