[Oncogeriatrics: the geriatrician's point of view]

The problem of the oncogeriatrics is a real challenge for next decades. More than 60% of the patients presenting a cancer in France are more than 65 years old. Indeed, the care services of the old patients affected by cancer require skills of both medical disciplines: geriatrics and oncology. It requires a culture sharing between these two fundamentally transverse specialities. A lot of progresses have to be made, even if this stake has really been considered in our country, in particular because of the implementation of a unique oncogeriatics organization within the French National Cancer Institute (INCA), but also by the structuring of a workgroup within the French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.