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Cancer screening in the older patient
1Division of Geriatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
|February 1, 1997
Abstract:
Effective treatment of several types of malignant diseases has developed substantially over the past four decades, with ever improving survival rates for cancers found in early stages. Among older patients, however, the cancer death rates remain elevated. This article explores the value of early screening for several types of malignant disease in the older patient.