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Annals of Surgical Oncology
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 1/2011

Open Access 01-01-2011 | Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

When Reporting on Older Patients with Cancer, Frailty Information is Needed

Authors: Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS, Barbara van Leeuwen, PhD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 1/2011

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Any effort to bring new light on the management of older patients with cancer should be welcomed and considered with interest. A large amount of evidence has now been gathered, proving significant delays in cancer detection, under-staging, and substandard treatment of this age subgroup, resulting in inferior survival. We have no standard of care and no evidence-based guidelines available for this age group because it has regularly been excluded from clinical trials: our knowledge on cancer management simply has never been validated in the older subsetting. …
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Metadata
Title
When Reporting on Older Patients with Cancer, Frailty Information is Needed
Authors
Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS
Barbara van Leeuwen, PhD
Publication date
01-01-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-010-1327-2

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