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SUBMITTER: Hurria A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4129504 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hurria Arti A Dale William W Mooney Margaret M Rowland Julia H JH Ballman Karla V KV Cohen Harvey J HJ Muss Hyman B HB Schilsky Richard L RL Ferrell Betty B Extermann Martine M Schmader Kenneth E KE Mohile Supriya G SG
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 20140801 24
A majority of cancer diagnoses and deaths occur in patients age ≥ 65 years. With the aging of the US population, the number of older adults with cancer will grow. Although the coming wave of older patients with cancer was anticipated in the early 1980s, when the need for more research on the cancer-aging interface was recognized, many knowledge gaps remain when it comes to treating older and/or frailer patients with cancer. Relatively little is known about the best way to balance the risks and b ...[more]