Second Edition
edited by
Lodovico Balducci
Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology attempts to review all aspects of the topic.
It offers a broad array of material on carcinogenesis and treatment of cancer in elderly persons and includes many excellent reference citations.
The chapters on the physiology of aging, new antineoplastic agents of interest to elderly persons, chronic lymphoid leukemias, and lung cancer are concise, clear and comprehensive.
Contents:
- Aging and cancer
- Essentials of clinical decision analysis : a new way to think about cancer and aging
- Cancer mortality in the elderly, 1960-98 : a worldwide approach
- Cancer in older persons : magnitude of the problem and efforts to advance the aging/cancer research interface
- Epidemiological research in aging : perspectives and limitations
- Factors affecting the diagnosis and treatment of older persons with cancer
- Biology of aging and cancer
- Age as a risk factor in multistage carcinogenesis
- Growth factors, oncogenes, and aging
- Proliferative senescence and cancer
- Apoptosis, chemotherapy, and aging
- Tumor-host interactions, aging, and tumor growth
- Immunological changes of aging
- Biologic characteristics of primary breast cancer
- Clinical evidence for change in tumor aggressiveness with age : a historical perspective
- Morbid anatomy of aging
- Natural history and epidemiology of monoclonal gammopathies
- Physiology of aging : relevance to symptoms, perceptions, and treatment tolerance
- Assessment of the older patient with cancer
- Frailty, cancer cachexia, and near death
- Practical proposals for clinical protocols in elderly patients with cancer
- Under-representation of elderly patients in cancer clinical trials : causes and remedial strategies
- Radiotherapy in the elderly : the achievements of the geriatric radiation oncology group (GROG)
- Quality of life considerations in the older cancer patient
- Social support and the elderly cancer patient
- Prognostic evaluation of the older cancer patient
- Nutrition, cancer, and the aging process : a rationale for nutritional practice guidelines
- Chemoprevention of cancer in the older person
- Secondary prevention of cancer in the older person
- Barriers to cancer prevention in the older person
- Perspectives on training in geriatrics and oncology
- Management of cancer in the older aged patient
- Surgical approaches to the older patient with cancer
- Advances in geriatric surgery
- Perioperative considerations in the geriatric oncology patient
- Hematopoiesis and aging
- Anemia and aging : relevance to the management of cancer
- Radiotherapy in the elderly
- Cancer chemotherapy in the older patient
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the older patient
- Polypharmacy in the senior adult patient
- Diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the elderly : cost-effectiveness considerations
- Guidelines for the management of the older cancer patient
- Oncological emergencies in the elderly
- Treatment of acute myeloid leukemia in older patients
- Chronic leukemias in the elderly
- Hodgkin lymphoma in the elderly
- Non-Hodgkin lymphomas
- Advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma in the elderly patient
- Treatment of small cell lung cancer in the elderly
- Breast cancer in the older woman : an oncologic perspective
- Breast cancer : a geriatric perspective
- Colorectal cancer
- Head and neck oncology in the aging patient
- Prostate cancer in the elderly
- Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder in the elderly
- Brain tumors in the older person
- Gynecologic cancers in the elderly
- Skin cancer in the aging patient
- Management of infectious complications in the aged cancer patient
- Symptom management in the older patient
- Oncological rehabilitation of the elderly
- Family caregiving issues for older cancer patients
- Interdisciplinary teams in geriatric oncology
- Spirituality and medicine
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