[Oncogeriatrics: the geriatrician's point of view].
The problem of the oncogeriatrics is a real challenge for next decades. More than 60% of the patients presenting a cancer in France are more than 65 years old. Indeed, the care services of the old patients affected by cancer require skills of both medical disciplines: geriatrics and oncology. It requires a culture sharing between these two fundamentally transverse specialities. A lot of progresses have to be made, even if this stake has really been considered in our country, in particular because of the implementation of a unique oncogeriatics organization within the French National Cancer Institute (INCA), but also by the structuring of a workgroup within the French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
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Pôle de Gérontologie, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Hôpital de Cimiez, CHU de Nice, 06000 Nice, France. guerin.o@chu-nice.fr
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D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000368:Aged; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012955:Societies, Medical