Value of comprehensive geriatric assessment in clinical management of breast cancer in elderly patients / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Comprehensive geriatric assessment(CGA), one of the core approaches of geriatrics, is a strategy and option for the management of common clinical problems in the elderly.It has a guiding role in surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy and anti-tumor clinical research for elderly breast cancer patients, and can be used to evaluate treatment tolerance, monitor intervention effects, adjust treatment plans and strategies, and improve patients' quality of life and life satisfaction.This article reviewed the clinical application of CGA in elderly patients with breast cancer.