Does Cancer-Specific CGA Lead to Better Care and Outcomes?
The field of geriatric assessment is crowded by a variety of assessment domains, a plethora of assessment tools, and research spanning diverse care settings. In their article published in this issue of the journal ONCOLOGY, Schubert, Gross, and Hurria have synthesized the evidence and propose a subset of commonly used functional assessment tools for assessing older adults with cancer.[1] Although the authors present a helpful summary of physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and other relevant domains and present a well-formed argument for their integration into the care of older cancer patients, their efforts represent only part of the information required for the translation of evidence into practice. Aging is a highly individualized and complex process. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is multidimensional and identifies a range of patient factors that are used to formulate an individualized care plan for clinical management. Studies of CGA interventions in various forms and sett
