ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Burden of Treatment among Elderly Patients with Cancer: A Scoping Review.
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- Treatment burden in individuals living with and beyond cancer: A systematic review of qualitative literature.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
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- Real-world outcomes of palbociclib plus endocrine therapy in elderly patients with HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer in Japan: a subgroup analysis of the P-BRIDGE study by age group.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Observational
- Exploring the Conditions and Strategies That Lead Nurses to Advocate for Elderly Cancer Patients in the Perioperative Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Association Between Psychosocial Factors and Decision Making Regarding Primary Treatment in Older Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2025Article
- Increasing Life Expectancy in Patients with Genitourinary Malignancies: Impact of Treatment Burden on Disease Management and Quality of Life.European urology · 2025Review
- Lessons learned from an observational study of patients with breast cancer: adaptions for remote implementation.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Observational
- Geriatric assessment-derived deficit accumulation and patient-reported treatment burden in older adults with bladder cancer.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Telemedicine in geriatric oncology is here to stay.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Peri-operative score for elderly patients with resectable hepatocellular carcinoma.World journal of hepatology · 2023Article
- Impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment: a qualitative analysis of strains, resources and coping strategies among elderly patients in a rural setting in Ghana.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Relationship between Treatment Burden, Health Literacy, and Medication Adherence in Older Adults Coping with Multiple Chronic Conditions.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Treatment burden in survivors of prostate and colorectal cancers: a qualitative interview study.BMJ open · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe objective of this scoping review is to understand how treatment burden is experienced in elderly patients with cancer and what the most prevalent dimensions of treatment burden are among this population. According to one conceptual model, there are six dimensions of treatment burden, including financial, medication, administrative, time/travel, lifestyle, and healthcare.
methodsA scoping review methodology framework was used to collected data from EMBASE CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane from 2000 to March 2020. Studies which focused on treatment burden among elderly patients with cancer (+65 years) were selected. Data were extracted using a standardized proforma.
resultsThe results identified 3319 total papers. Of these, 24 met the inclusion criteria and were included in the scoping review. A significant proportion of these studies was conducted in the United States (
conclusionsEmerging findings suggest that the financial aspects of cancer treatment are a significant burden for most elderly cancer patients. Personalized healthcare interventions targeting ways to reduce and screen for treatment burden, particularly those related to cost, are urgently needed.
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