Use of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to define frailty in geriatric oncology: Searching for the best threshold. Cross-sectional study of 418 old patients with cancer evaluated in the geriatric frailty clinic (G.F.C.) of Toulouse (France)

ConclusionThe phenotype of frailty is associated with more impaired geriatric domains and a threshold of 4 altered domains could be used to detect frailty from CGA data.
Source: Journal of Geriatric Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research