Geriatric Oncology News

Age-related changes to the skin’s elasticity may drive higher rates of metastatic skin cancer among older individuals, according to study results.

Patients participating in clinical trials for anticancer drugs do not gain a survival benefit compared with individuals who received routine care, according to study results published in JAMA.

AI could have the ability to answer some patient questions on cancer instead of clinicians, reducing clinician burdens and improving access to care, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

The gap in cancer mortality between Black and white individuals shrunk dramatically during the past 3 decades, according to a new report.

Among elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia, survival outcomes for those who received an allogenic stem cell transplant have improved significantly over the past 2 decades, according to data published in Clinical Cancer Research.

Medicare recipients with various cancer types had more frequent surgical complications when they also had at least one behavioral health disorder, according to study results published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Researchers at University of Central Florda developed an educational game to help older adults with cancer manage chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting.

The COVID-19 pandemic became a stressful, disruptive experience for people of all ages and health statuses around the world.

President Joe Biden today announced his intention to appoint oncologist, researcher and educator, W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, as director of the NCI.

Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy conferred 100% disease control and cancer-specific survival over a 3-year follow-up period among older adults with inoperable kidney cancer, results from a phase 2 study showed.