title: [Chemotherapy risk assessment for elderly patients].
abstract: The incidence of cancer increases with age and most elderly patients will choose chemotherapy, and the complications of cytotoxic chemotherapy will be more common in these patients. Therefore, it is particularly important to predict the chemotherapy toxicity for the elderly patients. This review article summarizes the recent chemotherapy risk assessment tools for the elderly patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology,PUMC Hospital,CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100032,China.
authors.forename: He-li
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology,PUMC Hospital,CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100032,China.
authors.forename: Chun-mei
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D018570:Risk Assessment