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Cancer in the elderly: the forgotten priority
Author(s) -
BOYLE DEBORAH McCAFFREY,
ENGELKING CONSTANCE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.1993.tb00176.x
Subject(s) - medicine , geriatric oncology , cancer , gerontology , disease , oncology nursing , nursing , family medicine , oncology , nurse education
In 1992, the American Oncology Nursing Society produced a state‐of‐the‐art document, recognizing the fact that cancer is primarily a disease of ageing and addressing the specific needs of elderly cancer patients. As 1993 has been dubbed the ‘Year of the Elderly’, European oncology nurses should also be establishing a framework to meet the cancer‐specific needs of the elderly.