Geriatric Oncology News

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has retained its distinction as the No. 1 cancer hospital in the country.

ASCO has issued updated guidelines on evaluation and management of vulnerabilities in patients aged 65 years and older prior to initiating systemic cancer treatment.

CHICAGO — Healio | HemOnc Today gathered the best, brightest and boldest in oncology for its second annual Disruptive Innovators Awards.

CHICAGO — A split-dose approach to the standard R-CHOP chemotherapy regimen resulted in a 71% complete response rate among older adults with newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, results from a phase 2 study showed.

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.