NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Older Adult Oncology, Version 1.2021

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Efrat Dotan Fox Chase Cancer Center;

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Louise C. Walter UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center;

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Ilene S. Browner The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins;

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Katherine Clifton Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine;

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Harvey Jay Cohen Duke Cancer Institute;

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Martine Extermann Moffitt Cancer Center;

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Cary Gross Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital;

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Sumati Gupta Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah;

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Genevieve Hollis Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania;

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Joleen Hubbard Mayo Clinic Cancer Center;

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Reshma Jagsi University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center;

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Nancy L. Keating Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center;

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Elizabeth Kessler University of Colorado Cancer Center;

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Beatriz Korc-Grodzicki Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center;

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June M. McKoy Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University;

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Sumi Misra Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center;

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Cynthia Owusu Case Comprehensive Cancer Center/University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute;

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Ashley Rosko The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute;

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Marcia Russell UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center;

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Fareeha Siddiqui UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center;

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Ishwaria M. Subbiah The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center;

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Volume 19: Issue 9
Online Publication Date:
20 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2021.0043
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The NCCN Guidelines for Older Adult Oncology address specific issues related to the management of cancer in older adults, including screening and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), assessing the risks and benefits of treatment, preventing or decreasing complications from therapy, and managing patients deemed to be at high risk for treatment-related toxicity. CGA is a multidisciplinary, in-depth evaluation that assesses the objective health of the older adult while evaluating multiple domains, which may affect cancer prognosis and treatment choices. These NCCN Guidelines Insights focus on recent updates to the NCCN Guidelines providing specific practical framework for the use of CGA when evaluating older adults with cancer.

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Article Category:
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Print Publication Date:
01 Sep 2021
Online Publication Date:
20 Sep 2021

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