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Geriatric assessments improve oncologist-patient communications


 

REPORTING FROM ASCO 2018


“This is a very important study that I think is likely to have a direct impact on the care of older patients with cancer,” ASCO expert Joshua A. Jones, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, said at the meeting.

“This study shows in a randomized fashion that we can, with a simple intervention, improve communication about what’s really important to older patients with cancer,” he said. “We have interventions, things like physical therapy, things like counseling, supports that can be provided to patients and families as they are thinking through treatment decisions, helping us to provide the most appropriate care for these individuals.”

SOURCE: Mohile SG et al. ASCO 2018, abstract LBA10003.

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