title: Caring for elderly cancer patients. Quality assurance considerations.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yancik
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Ries
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology