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14516 Prostate Cancer in Elderly Patients Pedro Recabal, Chung-Han Lee, and Dana E. Rathkopf INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignancy among men, and the second leading cause…

13315 Breast Cancer Shlomit Strulov Shachar, Trevor A. Jolly, Noam VanderWalde, and Hyman B. Muss INTRODUCTION Major advances in medical care and public health have resulted in dramatic increases in…

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…