Onkologie. 2020:14(1):7-11 | DOI: 10.36290/xon.2020.001

Elderly patient with cancer

Hana Matějovská Kubešová
Klinika interní, geriatrie a praktického lékařství LF MU, Brno

This article offers the review of characteristic features of malignancies in elderly as a result of commulation of common involution changes combined with pathophysiological mechanisms caused by tumor and its therapy. Attention is paid to impact of appetite loss, anaemia, dehydration, thromboembolic and septic complications. With increasing life expectancy, improving diagnostics and anticancer treatment, seniors with multiple chronic diseases are also entering cancer care. These patients are at risk of developing geriatric giant syndromes as instability and falls, deliria and complications connected with imobility.

Keywords: elderly with cancer, specificities of diseases in elderly, anaemia, loss of appetite, frailty, immunosupression, sepsis.

Published: March 1, 2020  Show citation

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Matějovská Kubešová H. Elderly patient with cancer. Onkologie. 2020;14(1):7-11. doi: 10.36290/xon.2020.001.
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