Erschienen in:
01.11.2015 | Pancreatic Tumors
Beyond “Age”: Frailty Assessment Strategies Improve Care of Older Patients with Cancer
verfasst von:
Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS, Barbara L. van Leeuwen, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
|
Ausgabe 12/2015
Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten
Excerpt
The progress in scientific and medical knowledge has been fascinating over the last few decades and has had a noticeable impact on the most recent clinical practice. However, not every patient benefits from this progress in the same way; European and North American data are there to prove how senior patients with cancer are offered a substandard treatment, predominantly surgical treatment. …