Critical reviews in oncology/hematology
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Crit. Rev. Oncol. Hematol. · Sep 2003
Comparative StudySymptom assessment in elderly cancer patients receiving palliative care.
The purpose of this study is to examine the concordance of symptom assessment among the multiple raters in French-speaking elderly patients with an advanced cancer benefiting from palliative care. ⋯ French-speaking elderly cancer patients without cognitive failure and in stable general condition are consistent in their symptom assessment, and they have to be considered as the gold standard. Nevertheless, interdisciplinary assessment is probably a valid surrogate to self-assessment by the patient but only when the latter is truly impossible.