Identification of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Based Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Elderly Asian Cancer Patients.

PURPOSE:Elderly cancer patients are at increased risk for malnutrition. We aim to identify comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) based clinical factors associated with increased nutritional risk and develop a clinical scoring system to identify nutritional risk in elderly cancer patients. PATIENT...

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Main Authors: Tira Tan, Whee Sze Ong, Tanujaa Rajasekaran, Khai Nee Koo, Li Li Chan, Donald Poon, Anupama Roy Chowdhury, Lalit Krishna, Ravindran Kanesvaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4883801?pdf=render