Cancer in the elderly / Ivan Todorov and Filip Novak, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Todorov, Ivan, 1972-

Novak, Filip.

Series:

Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments.

Aging issues, health and financial alternatives series.

Nova biomedical.

Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments

Aging issues, health and financial alternatives

Nova biomedical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geriatric oncology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gathers together research from across the globe in the study of cancer in the elderly. This book discusses such topics as: cancer-related fatigue in elderly patients; rectal cancer staging; hormone therapy treatment in elderly patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer; and, age and gender-related risk for oral cancer.

Contents:

Cancer-related fatigue in elderly patients / Annalisa Giacalone ... [et al.]

Rectal cancer staging / Aaron Gh Poh and Kok-Yang Tan

Hormone therapy, the only treatment in elderly patients with hormone-sensitive breast carcinoma unsuitable to surgical treatment / Laura Melado Vidales and Ginés Hernández Cortés

Correlations between metabolic and hormonal cancer risk factors and aging : age- and gender-related risk for oral cancer / Zsuzsanna Suba

Ethic reflexion on cancer treatment for patients with Alzheimer disease : literature's point of view / S. Moulias ... [et al.]

Esophageal cancer in the elderly / Guy Pines and Hanoch Kashtan

Lung cancer in the elderly / David Rossi

Head and neck cancer in the elderly : an overview / Nikos A. Katirtzoglou, Kevin J. Harrington and Kostas N. Syrigos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61470-761-8

OCLC:

830323675