ArticleFrontiers in medicine2024
The Edmonton Frail Scale as a screening score for frailty in oncogeriatrics.
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- Interplay between frailty and cardiometabolic disorders: from pathophysiology to clinical implications.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Pooled it
- Safety and efficacy of allogeneic umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cell infusion for frailty: a phase 2, single-centre, randomised, open-label controlled trial.EBioMedicine · 2026Trial
- Can the frailty score independently predict postoperative morbidity in patients with colorectal cancer? A prospective observational study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Observational
- Perspective recommendations on geriatric support for older adults with multiple myeloma based on challenges faced by a multidisciplinary team.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Inclusion of Older Adults in Early-Phase Cancer Clinical Trials: Safety, Efficacy and a Way Forward.Drugs & aging · 2025Review
- The Edmonton frail scale: a feasibility study on assessing frailty among older adults with multimorbidity in Norwegian primary health care.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is recommended for assessing frailty in older cancer patients but is time-consuming. The G8 screening tool was developed to select frail patients requiring CGA to optimize resources. The Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS) is another frailty scale validated for preoperative frailty screening, but scarcely studied in the field of oncogeriatrics. In this study, we examined the added value of the EFS in older cancer patients already considered as frail by the G8, by analyzing the association of EFS with CGA adjusted for age, gender, metastatic stage and comorbidity. We also analyzed the association of EFS with the one-year mortality rate after adjusting for cancer type and metastatic stage. Methodology: This retrospective study included patients aged over 70 years old with a new diagnosis of cancer, considered as potentially frail according to the G8 and who had had a CGA ( Results: The EFS identified 329 (86.58%) patients as frail and having a statistically significant predicted number of pathological components on the CGA ( Discussion: The EFS is a reliable tool for predicting frailty identified by the CGA in an older cancer population pre-selected as frail by the G8. EFS is an independent predictor of one-year mortality after adjustment for confounding factors. Validation of the EFS as a screening tool for frailty in cancer requires further studies to assess its performance in patients with normal G8 scores.
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