RT Book, Section
A1 Yennurajalingam, Sriram
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125786264
T1 Cancer and the Older Person
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125786264
RD 2024/04/20
AB In  the  United  States,  as  the  life  expectancy  increases  there  would  be  an  increase  in  older  individuals  in  terms  of  both  absolute  numbers  and  proportions  of  the  total  population.1,2,3,4  By  2050  it  is  expected  that  there  would  be  approximately  70  million  individuals  over  65  years  of  age.1  This  older  population  has  a  high  risk  for  cancer  and  also  a  higher  cancer  mortality  rate.3  This  increase  in  incidence  and  mortality  would  mean  better  understanding  of  the  disease  and  the  consequences  of  the  disease  in  the  older  population  so  as  to  provide  optimal  care.  An  older  person's  ability  to  tolerate  treatment  to  prolong  life  or  cure  cancer  or  have  quality  of  life  depends  on  a  complex  assessment  of  interaction  of  individual  person's  physiological  aging  process,  comorbidities,  psychosocial,  environmental  factors,  cancer,  and  cancer  treatment  itself.5  In  this  chapter  the  author  plans  to  review  the  challenges  confronting  older  patients  who  are  coping  with  cancer  and  to  discuss  various  strategies  to  manage  these  challenges  effectively.