Bladder cancer can cause pain when it spreads to different areas of the body. From NSAIDs to nerve blocks, here are the ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — "Cancer care in the elderly must include a geriatrician," according to Margot Gosney, MD, professor of elderly care medicine at Reading University in the United Kingdom.

A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

Let’s accept it: gone are the days when back pain used to be an issue for elderly people. Nowadays, it is one of the most common complaints, even among young adults. Many people shrug it off as a ...

Pancreatic cancer can cause back pain that spreads from the abdomen. It often affects the middle of the back and may feel like a dull ache. For some people, the pain may come and go. Pancreatic cancer ...

Primary Surgery or Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Advanced Ovarian Cancer: The Debate Continues… Forty percent of women diagnosed with endometrial cancer are age 65 or older (24%, age 65–74; 12%, age ...

The low-dose radiation therapy typically uses only a fraction of the radiation used to treat cancer. It is intended for ...

The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) has emerged as a valuable prognostic tool in the management of cancer among elderly patients. Formulated from serum albumin levels and the ratio of present ...

Older adults are at a high risk of skin cancer due to a lifetime of sun exposure and physical changes related to age. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer worldwide and disproportionately ...

Analysis of citation impact and social media engagement in cancer pain research. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...