Frailty assessment tools predict perioperative outcome in elderly patients with endometrial cancer better than age or BMI alone: a retrospective observational cohort study.
Katharina AnićFriedrich FlohrMona Wanda SchmidtSlavomir KrajnakRoxana SchwabMarcus SchmidtChristiane WestphalenClemens EichelsbacherChristian RuckesWalburgis BrennerAnnette HasenburgMarco Johannes BattistaPublished in: Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology (2022)
Preoperatively assessed frailty significantly predicts post-surgical morbidity rates in contrast to conventionally used single prognostic parameters such as age or BMI. A standardized preoperative assessment of frailty in the routine work-up might be beneficial in older cancer patients before major surgery to include these patients in a prehabilitation program with nutrition counseling and physiotherapy to adequately assess the perioperative risk.
Keyphrases
- endometrial cancer
- community dwelling
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- body mass index
- cardiac surgery
- newly diagnosed
- physical activity
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- weight gain
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery bypass
- acute kidney injury
- magnetic resonance imaging
- middle aged
- computed tomography
- coronary artery disease
- smoking cessation
- atrial fibrillation
- hepatitis c virus
- human immunodeficiency virus
- patient reported
- clinical evaluation