Too often, health care providers decide that older adults may “age out” of some cancer screening tests. This might be ...

For patients with impairment on the G8, the median OS was 6.8 months (95% CI, 2.4-10.1), compared with 14 months (95% CI, 9.9-not evaluable; P =.0110) for patients without impairment on the G8. Use of ...

Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...

It comes after research shows low uptake in some areas for bowel cancer home screening.

Adults aged 75-80 years benefit from lung cancer screening just as much as younger patients if they are fit enough for surgery, according to a new study. Researchers found that when those older adults ...

Genetic mutations in colon cells create adenomas, which develop into colorectal cancer. Therefore, adenomas (a cause of ...

Former president Joe Biden’s newly diagnosed prostate cancer, an aggressive form that has spread to his bones, has renewed the debate about who should receive annual screenings for signs of the ...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — "Cancer care in the elderly must include a geriatrician," according to Margot Gosney, MD, professor of elderly care medicine at Reading University in the United Kingdom.

For decades, doctors saw considered colon cancer as a disease of the elderly. By screening older adults and snipping away ...

Some claim the new multi-cancer detection tests will “revolutionize” cancer screening. Others fear the “worried well” will succumb to slick marketing and subpar tests and overwhelm both primary care ...