Practical Geriatric Oncology

Arti Hurria, MD, is a geriatrician and oncologist who focuses on the care of older patients with cancer. She completed a geriatric fellowship in the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program, followed by a hematology-oncology fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). She subsequently joined the faculty at MSKCC, where she served as Co-Principal Investigator on the institutional NIH P20 grant 'Development of an Aging and Cancer Center at MSKCC'. In the fall of 2006, Dr Hurria joined the City of Hope as Director of the Cancer and Aging Research Program. Dr Hurria is a cadre member of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, Cancer in the Elderly Committee, and is a recipient of the Paul Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research (K23 AG026749-01) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Association of Specialty Professors' Junior Development Award in Geriatric Oncology. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Oncologist. Harvey Jay Cohen, MD, is a geriatrician and oncologist who serves in several professional roles at Duke University Medical Center, including Walter Kempner Professor and Chair for the Department of Medicine, Director of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and Principal Investigator of the Duke Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. In addition, he also chairs the Cancer in the Elderly Committee for Cancer and Acute Leukemia Group B (CALGB) and co-chairs the Task Force on Cancer and Aging for the American Association for Cancer Research. He is a member of the International Association of Gerontology Governing Board and a past president of the American Geriatrics Society, the Gerontological Society of America and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Dr Cohen is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, the International Editorial Board of Geriatrics and Gerontology International and the Editorial Advisory Board of both the American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and Research News. He has received the Joseph T. Freeman Award and the Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the Jahnigen Memorial Award from the American Geriatrics Society, the Paul Calabresi Award from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology and the Clinically-Based Research Mentoring Award from Duke University.

This comprehensive text provides guidelines to the care of elderly cancer patients, which is different from that of younger adults.

Part I: 1. Geriatric assessment for the older adult with cancer Arti Hurria and Harvey Jay Cohen; 2. Pharmacology and unique side-effects of chemotherapy in older adults Hans Wildier and Matti Aapro; 3. Pharmacology and unique side-effects of hormonal therapy in older adults Leona Downey; 4. Drug utilization, adherence, and unique side-effects of targeted therapy in older adults Tiffany A. Traina and Stuart M. Lichtman; 5. Principles of surgical oncology in older adults Suzanne Gaskell, Siri R. Kristjansson and Riccardo A. Audisio; 6. Principles of radiation oncology in older adults Benjamin D. Smith and Thomas A. Buccholz; Part II. Management of Solid Tumors in Older Adults: 7. Management of breast cancer in older adults Michelle Shayne and Gretchen Kimmick; 8. Management of lung cancer in older adults Suresh S. Ramalingam and Chandra P. Belani; 9. Management of head and neck cancer in older adults Julie A. Kish; 10. Management of esophagus and gastric cancer in older adults Shahzad Siddique and Jimmy Hwang; 11. Management of colon and rectal cancer in older adults Supriya Gupta Mohile, Harman P. Kaur and Richard M. Goldberg; 12. Management of renal and bladder cancer in older adults Matthew I. Milowsky and Dean F. Bajorin; 13. Management of prostate cancer in older adults Andrew Liman and Gurkamal Chatta; 14. Management of ovarian and endometrial cancer in older adults William P. Tew and Vivian von Gruenigan; Part III. Management of Hematologic Malignancies in Older Adults: 15. Management of myelodysplasia in older adults Heidi D. Klepin and Bayard L. Powell; 16. Management of chronic leukemia in older adults Martha Wadleigh and Richard Maury Stone; 17. Management of acute myeloid leukemia in older adults Arati V. Rao and Joseph O. Moore; 18. Hematopoietic cell transplantation in older adults Andrew S. Artz and William B. Ershler; 19. Management of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in older adults Anne H. Blaes and Vicki A. Morrison; 20. Management of myeloma in older adults Amrita Y. Krishnan; Part IV. Symptom Management and Supportive Care of Older Adults: 21. Optimizing quality of life in older adults with cancer Alice B. Kornblith and Mark T. Hegel; 22. Optimizing functional status in older adults with cancer Gijsberta van Londen and Stephanie Studenski; 23. The myeloid growth factors in older adults with cancer Gary H. Lyman; 24. Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in older adults with cancer Matthew S. McKinney and Jeffrey Crawford; 25. Management of depression and anxiety in older adults with cancer Mark I. Weinberger, Christian J. Nelson and Andrew J. Roth; 26. Management of pain in older adults with cancer Anthony Nicholas Galanos, Katya Elbert-Avila and Leslie J. Bryan; 27. Management of fatigue in older adults with cancer Betty Ferrell and Tami Borneman; 28. Management of dyspnea in older adults with cancer Amy P. Abernethy, Jane L. Wheeler and David C. Currow; 29. Management of the gastrointestinal side-effects of therapy in older adults with cancer Laura Raftery, Stephen A. Bernard and Richard M. Goldberg.