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- Develop, test and disseminate easy screening tools to enable proper referrals to multidisciplinary clinics and encourage integrated approaches between oncologists and geriatricians
- Create a clear and operational definition of vulnerability/frailty applicable to oncology
- Increase the relevance of clinical trials for older patients:

Require large phase III trials to oversample older cancer patients in order reach a meaningful percentage of their cohorts, and to structure their analysis to provide results specific and pertinent to this population
Extend phase II and III trials to patients with high levels of comorbidity or functional impairment with stratified accruals or extension cohorts
Design specific trials for older cancer patients

- Promote multidisciplinary, basic/translational research on the interface of aging and cancer.

On-going research projects

Remark: Some information on clinical trials in elderly cancer patients may be found in the EU Clinical Trials Register which was launched in March 2011 by the European Medicines Agency (EMA): now online

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