THE UNMET NEEDS FOR ELDERLY WITH PROSTATE CANCER: A SURVEY
L. Fratino, S. Sava, S. Bordonaro, A. Butera, G. Altavilla, G. Di Lorenzo, G. Fornarini, R. Mattioli, S. Pignata, G. Procopio, R. Ricotta, M. Spada, U. Basso. P. Tralongo
Vol.4 (2019), issue 1, pag. 1 - 6
| Received | 07/01/2019 |
| Accepted | 31/01/2019 |
| Published | 26/02/2019 |
| Review by | Single-blind |
ABSTRACT
The clinical management of the elderly patient and in particular of the great elder (> 80 years) requires management approaches and criteria that, although recommended by scienti c societies, are often misunderstood or not applied.
Prostate cancer is a peculiar pathology of the elderly and the recent availability of effective therapeutic agents, at the same time characterized by potential peculiar adverse events, has revealed the need to identify a therapeutic proposal for this population through a careful selection that it is not based only on the age of the registry.
In this context we conducted a dedicated survey that involved several Italian centers in response to questions of onco-geriatric order.
The analysis of the answers obtained resulted in an expert opinion paper on the management of this subgroup of patients, in order to underline and pay proper attention to some unmet needs for the elderly patient with prostatic carcinoma.