Esmo Handbook of Cancer in the Senior Patient

Overview

Increasing age is one of the strongest risk factors for cancer development, and with the aging of the world population this presents a major epidemiologic challenge. Cancer and cancer treatment is different in older people and oncologists have to deal with age-related changes in organ function, co-morbidities and geriatric syndromes.

Edited by key opinion leaders from the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), this handbook:

• Provides a state of the art overview for medical oncologists and geriatric oncologists
• Includes a chapter on geriatric assessment by Martine Extermann, President of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)
• Includes a chapter on the role of the multidisciplinary team by Ludovico Balducci, pioneering and award-winning geriatric oncologist
• Includes a section on site specific cancers.

Contents

• Preface - Maati Aapro
• 1. Introduction - S. R. Kristjansson & T. B. Wyller
• 2. Cancer epidemiology - D. Schrijvers
• 3. Evaluation of the senior cancer patient: comprehensive geriatric assessment and screening tools for the elderly - M. Extermann
• 4. Frailty in the elderly - Margot Gosney
• 5. Surgical Treatment - S. Gaskell & RA.Audisio
• 6. Radiotherapy in the senior cancer patient - Wilfried Eberhardt
• 7. Hormonal anticancer treatment in the senior cancer patients - B. Seruga, E. Amir and I F.Tannock

Selected tumours in senior cancer patients

• 8. Cytotoxic and targeted anticancer treatment in the senior cancer patient - H. Wildiers
• 9. Breast cancer in the senior patient - L. Biganzoli
• 10. Prostate cancer - C. Terret, A. Fléchon & JP Droz
• 11. Lung cancer in the elderly - D. Schrijvers
• 12. Bladder cancer - M. Maffezzini & F. Campodonico
• 13. Gynecological - Wiebren Tjalma
• 14. Head and neck cancer in the elderly – E M Karapanagiotou, K J Harrington & K N Syrigos
• 15. Treatment of lymphoma in the elderly population – S A Michallet & B Coiffier
• 16. Management of myeloproliferative diseases in senior patients - D. Wolf & R. Stauder
• 17. Myelodysplastic syndromes in the senior patient – R Stauder & D Wolf
• 18. Selected tumors in senior cancer patients: colorectal cancer - D Papamichael
• 19. Renal cell cancer – J Bellmunt
• 20. Psychological problems in older cancer patients – M I Weinberger, E Balk, C J Nelson and A J Roth
• 21. Social and ethical aspects - G B Zulian
• 22. The role of the multidisciplinary team - Lodovico Balducci

Authors

Dick Schrijvers Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen-Middleheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Matti Aapro IMO Clinique de Genolier, Switzerland
Branko Zakotnik Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Riccardo Audisio St Helens Teaching Hospital, St Helens, UK
Hendrik van Halteren Ziekenhuis Gelderse Valle Ede, The Netherlands
Arti Hurria City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA