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Rising to the medication's requirements: The experience of elderly cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy in the elective oncogeriatrics field

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  • Foley, Rose-Anna
  • Hurard, Lucie Lechevalier
  • Anchisi, Annick
  • Anchisi, Sandro

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A new subfield of oncology has emerged in the last twenty years to raise awareness and address the specific needs of elderly cancer patients, a population that was long neglected in oncology. We sought to understand the individual experiences, as well as moral and social implications of considering elderly cancer patients as “treatable”.

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  • Foley, Rose-Anna & Hurard, Lucie Lechevalier & Anchisi, Annick & Anchisi, Sandro, 2019. "Rising to the medication's requirements: The experience of elderly cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy in the elective oncogeriatrics field," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:242:y:2019:i:c:s027795361930588x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112593
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