ESMO Handbook of Cancer in the Senior Patient

Increasing age is one of the strongest risk factors for cancer development, and with the aging of the world population this presents a major epidemiologic challenge. Cancer and cancer treatment is different in older people and oncologists have to deal with age-related changes in organ function, co-morbidities and geriatric syndromes.

Edited by key opinion leaders from the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview for medical and geriatric oncologists and will help them care for the older patient in the most effective way.

Preface - Maati Aapro

1. Introduction - S. R. Kristjansson & T. B. Wyller
2. Cancer epidemiology - D. Schrijvers
3. Evaluation of the senior cancer patient: comprehensive geriatric assessment and screening tools for the elderly - M. Extermann
4. Frailty in the elderly - Margot Gosney
5. Surgical Treatment - S. Gaskell & RA.Audisio
6. Radiotherapy in the senior cancer patient - Wilfried Eberhardt
7. Hormonal anticancer treatment in the senior cancer patients - B. Seruga, E. Amir and I F.Tannock

Selected tumours in senior cancer patients
8. Cytotoxic and targeted anticancer treatment in the senior cancer patient - H. Wildiers
9. Breast cancer in the senior patient - L. Biganzoli
10. Prostate cancer - C. Terret, A. Fléchon & JP Droz
11. Lung cancer in the elderly - D. Schrijvers
12. Bladder cancer - M. Maffezzini & F. Campodonico
13. Gynecological - Wiebren Tjalma
14. Head and neck cancer in the elderly – E M Karapanagiotou, K J Harrington & K N Syrigos
15. Treatment of lymphoma in the elderly population – S A Michallet & B Coiffier
16. Management of myeloproliferative diseases in senior patients - D. Wolf & R. Stauder
17. Myelodysplastic syndromes in the senior patient – R Stauder & D Wolf
18. Selected tumors in senior cancer patients: colorectal cancer - D Papamichael
19. Renal cell cancer – J Bellmunt
20. Psychological problems in older cancer patients – M I Weinberger, E Balk, C J Nelson and A J Roth
21. Social and ethical aspects - G B Zulian
22. The role of the multidisciplinary team - Lodovico Balducci

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