Geriatric assessment and treatment decision-making in surgical oncology

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Present an approach for surgical decision-making in cancer that incorporates geriatric assessment by building upon the common categories of tumor, technical, and patient factors to enable dual assessment of disease and geriatric factors.

RECENT FINDINGS: Conventional preoperative assessment is insufficient for older adults missing important modifiable deficits, and inaccurately estimating treatment intolerance, complications, functional impairment and disability, and death. Including geriatric-focused assessment into routine perioperative care facilitates improved communications between clinicians and patients and among interdisciplinary teams. In addition, it facilitates the detection of geriatric-specific deficits that are amenable to treatment. We propose a framework for embedding geriatric assessment into surgical oncology practice to allow more accurate risk stratification, identify and manage geriatric deficits, support decision-making, and plan proactively for both cancer-directed and non-cancer-directed therapies. This patient-centered approach can reduce adverse outcomes such as functional decline, delirium, prolonged hospitalization, discharge to long-term care, immediate postoperative complications, and death.

SUMMARY: Geriatric assessment and management has substantial benefits over conventional preoperative assessment alone. This article highlights these advantages and outlines a feasible strategy to incorporate both disease-based and geriatric-specific assessment and treatment when caring for older surgical patients with cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Current opinion in supportive and palliative care - 17(2023), 1 vom: 01. März, Seite 22-30

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chesney, Tyler R [VerfasserIn]
Daza, Julian F [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Camilla L [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.01.2023

Date Revised 26.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/SPC.0000000000000635

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352064153