Impact of Comorbidity on Treatment Decision Making and Outcomes
Cancer, like many chronic conditions, is a disease of aging, and more than half of cancer patients in developed countries are 65 years or older. Therefore, many cancer patients have comorbidities, high use of medications, altered body composition, pharmac
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Cancer and Chronic Conditions Addressing the Problem of Multimorbidity in Cancer Patients and Survivors
Cancer and Chronic Conditions
Bogda Koczwara Editor
Cancer and Chronic Conditions Addressing the Problem of Multimorbidity in Cancer Patients and Survivors
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Editor Bogda Koczwara, AM Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer Flinders University Bedford Park, SA Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-1843-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1844-2
ISBN 978-981-10-1844-2
(eBook)
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Foreword
It is such a surprise that a book like this has not been written before. Cancer does not occur in a vacuum. Just as our lives are complex and multilayered, so are our individual medical situations with many cancer patients already experiencing other diseases and conditions, often with no seeming connection to their cancer. Dealing with the fallout of a cancer diagnosis and treatment is difficult enough on its own, but when it occurs against a backdrop of other illnesses, the degree of difficulty can become overwhelming. The cancer world is becoming increasingly sophisticated with deeper knowledge about the disease, more high-tech detection approaches, improved treatments and the commitment towards improved statistics and outcomes. Large amounts of money are spent on driving research across the cancer spectrum. We celebrate incremental steps in new knowledge and its application, and so we should! Within all the closely watched cancer statistics and clinical discussions sit ordinary people—cancer patients—who have been thrust into the alien world of oncology and just want to get better. The statistics and graphs actually mean very little to an individual who will not know on which part of the survival curve he
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