Geriatric Oncology News

University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the National Comprehensive Cancer Network as its 33rd member institution.

Polypharmacy and potential drug-drug interactions appeared associated with increased risk for adverse treatment outcomes among older adults with advanced cancer, according to a secondary analysis of the GAP70+ trial published in Cancer.

For more than a decade, the medical community as a whole, and particularly the field of rheumatology, has been trying to move away from opioids for the management of chronic pain — with varying degrees of success.

Unsupervised machine learning helped identify older adults with advanced cancer who appeared more likely to experience unplanned hospitalization and death, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Aggressive end-of-life care remains common among older individuals with metastatic cancer despite increased efforts over the past several decades to reduce such interventions, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Although a study on the benefits of geriatric assessment in older patients with cancer did not demonstrate significant improvements to quality of life, researchers said it yielded valuable insights about how to optimize this intervention.

Omission of whole-breast irradiation did not appear to have a negative impact on survival or risk for distant metastases among older women with early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, according to phase 3 study results.

Despite significantly extending survival for younger adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, immune checkpoint inhibitors have conferred only modest OS gains over time among patients aged older than 75 years, study results showed.

Researchers identified substantial racial and ethnic disparities in access to prescription opioids among older patients with cancer nearing end of life, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Spaceflight may place astronauts at increased risk for developing mutations that can lead to cancer and heart disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications Biology.