Background Cancer is a disease that affects mostly older adults. Older adults often have
other chronic health conditions in addition to cancer and may have different health priorities, …

Objective Prostate cancer is a disease of older men. Weekly docetaxel (DPq1w) is often
favored over the standard three-weekly regimen (DPq3w) due to concerns about safety and …

Background: Although facility-based cancer rehabilitation and exercise programs exist, patients
are often unable to attend due to distance, cost, and other competing obligations. There …

Objective To assess the efficacy and toxicity of abiraterone and docetaxel in men with
metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) of age > 80 compared to younger men. …

PURPOSE: Since the mid 1990s evidence has supported ipsilateral adrenal gland sparing
radical nephrectomy unless the gland appears involved on imaging or the primary tumor is …

OBJECTIVE: To use a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to describe patient/proxy tolerance
for the number of clinic visits, and chances of readmission, intensive care unit admission, …

Materials and methods We performed a comprehensive Medline search from 1966 to March
2003 to identify all English-language randomized trials of RP, external-beam radiotherapy (…

Importance The risk for low-trauma fracture is increased by more than 30% after ischemic
stroke, but existing fracture risk scores do not account for history of stroke as a high-risk …

Background: Since the introduction of nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy (NSRP), there
have been concerns about the increased risks of positive surgical margins (PSM) and …

Folate deficiency is relatively common in older adults. There is now growing interest in the
roles played by folate and B vitamins in the metabolism of homocysteine. Recent studies have …