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This review discusses operative risk assessment tools and tumor biology specific to elderly cancer patients, highlighting the need for standardized cancer surgery in this heterogeneous population.
This review discusses epidemiological changes, tumor biology, and operative risk assessment tools for elderly cancer patients, highlighting the need for standardized care.
May inform preoperative decisions in elderly cancer patients; leaves open standardization of protocols pending prospective validation.
Global growth of the elderly population is requiring healthcare providers to cater for an expanding elderly cancer subpopulation. The aggression with which cancer should be treated in this subpopulation is an ethical dilemma and is an ongoing debate, as surgeons have feared increases in postoperative morbidity and mortality. As a result elderly patients often receive suboptimal cancer treatment. The need for standardization of cancer surgery is well recognized despite the difficulties in view of heterogeneity of the group. In this article, epidemiological changes, tumor biology specific to elderly cancer are visited, operative risk assessment tools are discussed, and interim results of ongoing multinational investigation ie, PACE (Preoperative Assessment of Cancer Elderly) revealed.
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Ramesh et al. (2006) conducted a review in Cancer in elderly patients. Operative risk assessment tools was evaluated. This review discusses operative risk assessment tools and tumor biology specific to elderly cancer patients, highlighting the need for standardized cancer surgery in this heterogeneous population.
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