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

A qualitative study of ten Chinese integrated care institutions finds that an app-based electronic geriatric assessment tool ...

Palliative care as a predictor of healthcare resource use at end-of-life in adult Albertan lung cancer decedents between 2008-2015: A secondary data analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

French researchers have developed and externally validated a 17-point score based on the standardised Geriatric Core Dataset ...

A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

Lead author, Quirin Zangl, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork about research published in the journal ONCOLOGY focusing on the importance comprehensive geriatric assessment tools for patients with ...

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 ...

This work from Quirin Zangl, MD, and colleagues to evaluate comprehensive geriatric assessment tools to better guide patients with urogenital carcinomas perioperatively and, consequently, to intensify ...

Evaluation of factors that intervention of palliative care team contributes to quality-of-life improvement of Japanese patients with advanced cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2011 ...