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The management of the older person with cancer is based on the estimate of life expectancy, tolerance of treatment, patient preference, and socio-economic barriers to treatment. The thrust of this book is to make medical oncologists and other health professionals managing older patients with cancer aware of recent developments in geriatric assessment and in cancer management for the older adult. After consulting this text the practitioner will be able to provide individualized treatment to the older cancer patient, reflecting that patient's physiologic age and personal needs. This book will also provide a scaffold to organize rapidly developing advances in geriatric assessment. This is particularly relevant for oncologists since the majority of patients with cancer are 65 and older. The target audiences for this book are oncologists of all specialties, oncology nurses, primary care physicians, geriatricians, and all other health professionals involved in the management of older patients with cancer.

Geriatric oncology. --- Geriatrics. --- Oncology. --- Aged --- Neoplasms --- Adult --- Diseases --- Age Groups --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Geriatrics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Older people --- Tumors in older people --- Tumors --- Medicine. --- Internal medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Internal Medicine. --- Oncology --- Oncology  . --- Medicine, Internal --- Gerontology --- Health and hygiene

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Oncology. Neoplasms --- Geriatrics --- Human medicine --- geneeskunde --- geriatrie --- oncologie --- gerontologie

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Biological Basis of Geriatric Oncology highlights research issues that are specific to geriatric oncology in the field of carcinogenesis and cancer prevention and treatment, based on the biologic interactions of cancer and age. It illustrates the benefit of the principles of geriatrics in the management of cancer in the older individual. This volume provides a frame of reference for practicioners of any specialties involved in the management of older patients and for oncologists involved in the management of cancer of older individuals. It is a source for basic and clinical scientists exploring the interactions and emerging information of cancer and aging.

Human biochemistry --- Oncology. Neoplasms --- Geriatrics --- Pathological biochemistry --- Orthopaedics. Traumatology. Plastic surgery --- biochemie --- spoedgevallen --- geriatrie --- oncologie --- EHBO (eerste hulp bij ongelukken) --- gerontologie

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Anemia is found in approximately 80% of elderly patients, most often caused by chronic disease and iron deficiency. Hemopoiesis is a crossroad for many aging-related events. Why do older patients become anemic? When should a diagnostic work up of anemia be initiated in the older person? What are the clinical consequences of anemia? Can the treatment of anemia delay aging? Have erythropoietic growth factors played a role in age-related anemia? Who should receive an erythropoietin stimulating agent? When should the suspicion for Myelodysplastic Syndrome be ruled out and what are the clues? This book addresses these and many other important questions with a review of the most recent findings.

Anemia. --- Geriatrics. --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Anaemia --- Blood --- Hematology. --- Internal medicine. --- Oncology  . --- Nephrology. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Internal Medicine. --- Oncology. --- Internal medicine --- Kidneys --- Tumors --- Medicine, Internal --- Haematology

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Oncology. Neoplasms --- Geriatrics --- Pathological haematology --- Nefrology --- Human medicine --- geneeskunde --- nefrologie --- geriatrie --- oncologie --- hematologie --- gerontologie