Publication details
Senior s onkologickým onemocněním
| Title in English | Elderly patient with cancer |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Onkologie |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://onkologiecs.cz/artkey/xon-202001-0001_senior_s_8239_onkologickym_onemocnenim.php |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.36290/xon.2020.001 |
| Keywords | elderly patient; polypharmacotherapy; cancer in senior; complex geriatric assessement; geriatric syndromes |
| Description | This article offers the review of characteristic features of malignancies in elderly as a result of commulation of common involution changes combined with pathophysiological mechanisms caused by tumor and its therapy. Attention is paid to impact of appetite loss, anaemia, dehydration, thromboembolic and septic complications. With increasing life expectancy, improving diagnostics and anticancer treatment, seniors with multiple chronic diseases are also entering cancer care. These patients are at risk of developing geriatric giant syndromes as instability and falls, deliria and complications connected with imobility. |
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