August 31, 2010 — A new assessment tool -- the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Frailty Instrument (SHARE-FI) -- provides a reliable and practical way of assessing an elderly person's ...
Creating and establishing a sustainable culture of clinical and translational research at an academic cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...
The researchers proposed using the FRAIL Scale modified to include an extra item on time since completion of cancer treatment and a cut-off of 2 or higher to assess frailty in older adult cancer ...
A slower walking pace among older adults with blood cancer can be a sign of frailty – which could be useful to know when tailoring one’s care to increase survival and lower hospitalizations. A slower ...
Individualizing Care for Patients With Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Integrating Genetics, Evolving Therapies, and Patient-Specific Disease Burden There are two groups of patients for whom current ...
ORLANDO--A new study suggests that middle-age and elderly men are less likely to develop worsening frailty if they have high levels of certain anabolic hormones, which are muscle- and bone-building ...