Effects of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) guided care versus usual care on overall survival (OS) and health-related quality of life (HRQL) for older adults with cancer: A systematic review ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although a study on the benefits of geriatric assessment in older patients with cancer did not demonstrate ...

How Did a Multi-Institutional Trial Show Feasibility of Electronic Data Capture in Older Patients With Cancer? Results From a Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study (Alliance A171902) A total of one ...

Geriatric Assessment: Abdominal and Rectal Examination In another important addition to this series on geriatric assessment, Mark Williams leads us through an examination of the abdomen. Clinical Case ...

As the population ages, the incidence of older adults being diagnosed with lung cancer is increasing, though data on how to specifically treat this population are lacking. Older patients can benefit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saint Louis University’s Gateway Geriatric Education Center develops leading-edge education for current and future geriatric professionals. It has been funded by the Health Resources and Services ...

Tiffany Volden, MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. She completed medical school at the University of Nebraska ...

San Francisco-based UCSF Health opened a specialty clinic in July for adults 65 and older with inflammatory bowel disease. The UCSF IBD Longevity Clinic is led by gastroenterologist Kendall Beck, MD, ...