The G8 screening tool enhances prognostic value to ECOG performance status in elderly cancer patients: A retrospective, single institutional study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 12; no. 6; p. e0179694
• Main Authors: Takahashi, Masahiro, Takahashi, Masanobu, Komine, Keigo, Yamada, Hideharu, Kasahara, Yuki, Chikamatsu, Sonoko, Okita, Akira, Ito, Shukuei, Ouchi, Kota, Okada, Yoshinari, Imai, Hiroo, Saijo, Ken, Shirota, Hidekazu, Takahashi, Shin, Mori, Takahiro, Shimodaira, Hideki, Ishioka, Chikashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 22.06.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Cancer; Cancer patients; Cancer research; Cancer therapies; Chemotherapy; Classification; Comorbidity; Confidence intervals; Elderly patients; Family medical history; Female; Gastrointestinal cancer; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - diagnosis; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - pathology; Geriatric Assessment - methods; Geriatrics; Group dynamics; Hematology; Humans; Male; Medical prognosis; Medical tests; Medicine and Health Sciences; Missing data; Mortality; Multivariate analysis; Neoplasm Staging; Neoplasms - diagnosis; Neoplasms - pathology; Older people; Oncology; Patients; People and Places; Pricing policies; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Screening; Studies; Survival; Survival Analysis; Japan

Some elderly cancer patients, even with good Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG-PS), have poor survival outcomes and cannot tolerate standard therapy. Few studies have detailed the associations between the G8 screening tool, ECOG-PS, and overall survival (OS) in such patient...