Preoperative frailty screening in elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer surgery: an essential step for a good surgical outcome.

Radu IacobescuSabina Antonela AntoniuAlina Delia PopaMariana Pavel-TanasaTeodora Alexa Stratulat

Published in: Expert review of respiratory medicine (2024)

Among the types of existing methods used to assess frailty those on the geriatric assessment seem to be the most appropriate; however, they are unable to fully capture the 'surgical' frailty; thus, other instruments should be developed and validated in NSCLC.

Keyphrases

community dwelling
small cell lung cancer
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
patients undergoing
patient reported outcomes
brain metastases