How Personalized Interventions & Patient Feedback Will Shape the Future of Geriatric Cancer Care

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Published 2020-11-11

A population that is living longer means the number of geriatric patients with cancer is increasing, but an evidence gap that exists in this population that researchers are slowly trying to fill, says Dr. Grant Williams.

Williams, a geriatrician oncologist and assistant professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, recently sat down with CURE to discuss what the current treatment landscape in geriatric cancer looks like, and where the field is going in the future.

The most important part, Williams says, is allowing patients to be a partner in their care by providing assessment tools that track their individual issues and concerns (such as malnutrition), then treating and creating interventions to manage those issues in order to ensure better outcomes.

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