Purpose To update the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) 2005 recommendations
on geriatric assessment (GA) in older patients with cancer. Methods SIOG composed a …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the outcomes of a pre-operative
comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and the risk of severe post-operative complications in …

BACKGROUND: A number of elderly cancer patients do not receive standard surgery for
solid tumors because they are considered unfit for treatment as a consequence of inaccurate …

Si riporta di un caso eccezionale da noi osservato nel dicembre 1983 all'Istituto Nazionale
Tumori di Milano: una donna affetta da carcinoma renale trattata con la sola nefrectomia …

Purpose: To appraise the performance of Compre-hensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in
elderly cancer patients (> 65 years) and to evaluate whether it could add further information …

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer
mortality in women worldwide. Elderly individuals make up a large part of the breast cancer …

Surgery is the oldest oncological discipline, dating back thousands of years. Prior to the
advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis 150 years ago, only the brave, desperate, or ill-advised …

BACKGROUND Aging remains one of the single greatest risk factors for the development of
new breast carcinoma. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relation between biologic …

Purpose The accurate harvesting of a sentinel node in breast cancer includes a sequence of
procedures with components from different medical specialities, including nuclear medicine…

Purpose The aging of the population is a real concern for surgical oncologists, who are
increasingly being asked to treat patients who would not have been considered for surgery in the …