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375 Functional Dependency Siri Rostoft and Benedicte Rønning INTRODUCTION Functional dependency is a geriatric syndrome where a person is not able to live independently and perform basic activities of daily…

537 Nutrition Suzanne D. Gerdes INTRODUCTION Nutrition is important at any age to maintain health. Aging brings on lifestyle changes and physiological changes as well as an increase in chronic…

20722 Bladder and Renal Cancer Ravindran Kanesvaran BLADDER CANCER IN THE ELDERLY Cancer is a disease of aging, and bladder cancer (BC) is a classic example of the interaction between…

30531 Treatment of Cancer Pain in the Elderly Koshy Alexander and Paul Glare INTRODUCTION Pain is a common problem in older cancer patients, estimated to affect 80% of those with…

18320 Head and Neck Cancer in Older Adults Ronald J. Maggiore, Noam VanderWalde, and Melissa Crawley Head and neck cancers (HNCs) usually manifest as squamous cell carcinomas within the paranasal…

11914 Screening Tools in Geriatric Oncology Daniel W. Yokom, Cindy Kenis, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, and Martine T. E. Puts INTRODUCTION The current gold standard for assessment of older adults…

92 Physiologic Changes of Aging Olivia Le Saux, Sophie Watelet, Marine Haution-Bitker, Florence Murard-Reeman, Clémence Lecardonnel, Mahdi Harchaoui, Marc Bonnefoy, and Claire Falandry INTRODUCTION Aging is an inevitable, irreversible, and…

17119 Ovarian Cancer in the Older Woman William P. Tew BACKGROUND Ovarian cancer is recognized as a disease of aging, with more than 30% of new cases being diagnosed in…

8110 Cognitive Syndromes and Delirium Reena Jaiswal and Yesne Alici INTRODUCTION Cognitive syndromes are commonly encountered among cancer patients, with the elderly being at higher risk (1). Factors such as…

739 Comorbidity in Cancer Grant R. Williams and Holly M. Holmes INTRODUCTION Older adults with cancer respond differently to treatments than do younger patients. Older patients more often present with…