Elisabeth Castel-Kremer, Solene De Talhouet, Anne-Laure Charlois, Emmanuelle Graillot, Xavier Chopin-Laly, Mustapha Adham, Brigitte Comte, Catherine Lombard-Bohas, Thomas Walter, Gilles Boschetti
INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma affects mainly older patients. Surgery is indicated for localized tumors while chemotherapy alone is proposed in advanced or metastatic tumors. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of standard of care oncologic treatments in this population, the accuracy of the geriatric evaluation to predict the ability of patients to tolerate the recommended treatments and to identify specific geriatric prognosis factors. METHODS: We included, between 2007 and 2014, all consecutive patients over 70 years of age with a pathologically diagnosed pancreatic cancer...
April 20, 2018: Journal of Geriatric Oncology