Prospective evaluation of the G8 screening tool for prognostication of survival in elderly patients with lung cancer: A single-institution study.

The G8 questionnaire is a quick and easy-to-use screening tool. Several studies reported that the G8 questionnaire had a high sensitivity for predicting abnormalities in the full comprehensive geriatric assessment and predicted functional decline and survival in elderly cancer patients. The present...

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Main Authors: Yoko Agemi, Tsuneo Shimokawa, Jiichiro Sasaki, Kazuhito Miyazaki, Yuki Misumi, Akira Sato, Shinzi Aida, Mari Ishii, Yukiko Nakamura, Katsuhiko Naoki, Hiroaki Okamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210499