Evaluation of Treatment Candidacy in Older Adults With Cancer

Older adults (aged ≥65 years) are the fasting growing demographic of the population. Because age is an independent risk factor for most cancers, the care of geriatric oncology patients will pose ever-increasing challenges for healthcare providers and systems of care. In elderly patients for whom radiation therapy is a potential modality for curative or palliative treatment with or without systemic therapy, understanding the patient's priorities and goals of care is key to the shared decision-making process (Fig. 1).

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